Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Problems trying to build Ethereal under FreeBSD ...

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From: Motonori Shindo <mshindo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 10:19:06 +0900 (JST)
Richard,

In FreeBSD, GNU make packages/ports has a name "gmake" to distinguish
it from the BSD "make", so you don't have to play with a PATH to
select which flavor of make to use on which occasion. Just grab the
gmake packages/ports and then type gmake. It will build everything
cleanly.

Regards,

From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Problems trying to build Ethereal under FreeBSD ...
Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 13:29:20 -0800

> On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 08:34:18AM +1030, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> > but make fails with:
> > 
> > "Makefile", line 1142: Need an operator ...
> 
> I think there are "ports"/"packages" for GNU make, or you can just
> download the source and build it directly.

> This is a bit of a pain, as the *OS* build procedures required BSD make,
> so doing kernel builds, or rebuilding part or all of the rest of the OS,
> requires a different make, so you may have to tweak your command search
> path setting depending on what you're doing....

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