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From: vepaepck@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Volker Paepcke)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps
Subject: Re: emacs and FreeBSD 1.1 CD-ROM distribution
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 10:06:09 GMT
Organization: Student Pool, CSD, University of Erlangen, Germany
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knight@ka1dt.mv.com (Dave Knight) writes:

>Anyone successfully built the emacs 19.22 from the Walnut Creek FreeBSD 1.1 
>distribution disk (on FreeBSD 1.1R system)? If so, is there any undocumented 
>magic?

>Copied it from /mnt/ports/editor/emacs to /usr/ports/editor/emacs. Did a make. 
>The build proceeded for quite awhile and built a bunch of images. It then 
>stops with error #2, "make: don't know how to make make" shortly before it 
>tries to build emacs proper.

If I remember right You have to use the GNU-make 8-)
Something like 
  gmake MAKE=gmake
should work!

volker

>Checked the FAQ, didn't find anything appropriate. Thanks.
>--------
>Dave Knight				knight@ka1dt.mv.com (home)
>Nashua, NH				knight@caboom.zko.dec.com (work)