gmake fails; can't eval MOZCONFIG

[JR1994]

I am trying to build Arctic Fox on NetBSD 9.2 macppc on my PowerMac G4. when I run the command gmake -f client.mk buid I get the following error.

client.mk:117: *** missing separator. Stop.

Here is the section of code

# As $(shell) doesn't preserve newlines, use sed to replace them with an       
# unlikely sequence (||), which is then replaced back to newlines by make       
# before evaluation. $(shell) replacing newlines with spaces, || is always     
# followed by a space (since sed doesn't remove newlines), except on the       
# last line, so replace both '|| ' and '||'.                                   
# Also, make MOZ_PGO available to mozconfig when passed on make command line.   
# Likewise for MOZ_CURRENT_PROJECT.                                             
MOZCONFIG_CONTENT := $(subst ||,$(CR),$(subst || ,$(CR),$(shell $(addprefix MOZ_CURRENT_PROJECT=,$(MOZ_CURRENT_PROJECT)) MOZ_PGO=$(MOZ_PGO) $(TOPSRCDIR)/mach environment --format=client.mk | sed 's/$$/||/')))
$(eval $(MOZCONFIG_CONTENT)) 

Tried to google this and came up empty handed.

[rmottola]

would you mind installing python 2.7 and using the command "./mach build" which is the recommended way to build AF like FF?

[rmottola]

NetBSD 9.2 is supported on Intel just fine. Linux compiles PPC, so if you care diving into this issue...
Have you got autoconf 2.13 pytin 2.5 and other dependencies?<

Try building with: ./mach build instead of of hard running the make file like TTF suggests.

[rmottola]

@JR1994 would you mind trying using python2.7 and mach? ArcitcFox compiles fine on i386, amd64 and sparc64 on NetBSD, so for sure the build system is working.

[rmottola]

@JR1994 no update since years from you, but I now am able to build on NetBSD PPC, i386, amd64 myself, somehow "officially supported".
Would you mind testing? otherwise I will close the bug for timeout in the next days.