At Sat, 27 May 2006 20:47:12 -0400,
Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> 
> I just build a kernel, using build.sh.  As I usually do, I did a 'cd' to
> the build directory and did a 'make install'.  It failed with these
> messages:
> 
> make: "/usr/src/sys/conf/Makefile.kern.inc" line 79: Malformed conditional
> (${HAVE_GCC} > 3) make: "/usr/src/sys/conf/Makefile.kern.inc" line 79:
> Need an operator make: "/usr/src/sys/conf/Makefile.kern.inc" line 82:
> if-less endif make: "/usr/src/sys/conf/Makefile.kern.inc" line 82: Need an
> operator make: "/usr/src/sys/conf/Makefile.kern.inc" line 96: Malformed
> conditional (${HAVE_GCC} > 3) make: "/usr/src/sys/conf/Makefile.kern.inc"
> line 96: Need an operator make: "/usr/src/sys/conf/Makefile.kern.inc" line
> 98: if-less endif make: "/usr/src/sys/conf/Makefile.kern.inc" line 98:
> Need an operator make: Fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
> 
> make: stopped in /usr/BUILD/obj/sys/arch/i386/compile/GG1
> 
> Using nbmake from the tools directory didn't help; the build itself (of
> all of kernel and userland) was done with a clean obj and tools directory.

The error is because your /usr/share/mk is not up-to-date.
When you do a make install on the kernel compile directory, it uses
your system's /usr/share/mk, not the one in your source tree.

To solve this, just to a ``make USETOOLS=no install`` in
YOURSOURCETREE/share/mk. After that, make install should work.

--
Rui Paulo <rpaulo@{fnop.net,NetBSD.org}>