On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 04:23:18PM +1100, Luke Mewburn wrote:
  | It may be safest to just provide fallback definitions in
  | Makefile.conf.inc.

Here's a suggested patch.  How's this work for you?
(FWIW: I couldn't reproduce the problem.)


Index: sys/conf/Makefile.kern.inc
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RCS file: /cvsroot/src/sys/conf/Makefile.kern.inc,v
retrieving revision 1.45
diff -p -p -u -r1.45 Makefile.kern.inc
--- sys/conf/Makefile.kern.inc	17 Nov 2003 09:39:29 -0000	1.45
+++ sys/conf/Makefile.kern.inc	20 Nov 2003 05:55:01 -0000
@@ -31,6 +31,13 @@ CSCOPE?=	cscope
 MKID?=		mkid
 .MAKEOVERRIDES+=USETOOLS	# make sure proper value is propagated
 
+_MKMSG?=		@\#
+_MKSHMSG?=		: echo
+_MKSHECHO?=		: echo
+_MKMSG_CREATE?=		:
+_MKTARGET_COMPILE?=	:
+_MKTARGET_CREATE?=	:
+
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