Re: Build failure on FreeBSD por ts: “Makefile:88: *** missing separator. Stop .”

Hello Saii,

Am Tue, Dec 09, 2025 at 12:49:15PM +0530 schrieb Saii Varun M R:
> Hi team,
> 
> I’m trying to  build the wazuh-agent FreeBSD port using the FreeBSD
> ports tree bundled inside the Wazuh source code.
> 
> I executed the following command:
> 
> make V=1 -C ./wazuh/build/temp/freebsd-ports-release-13.0.0/security/wazuh-agent package
> 
> However, the build fails with the following error:
> 
> Makefile:88: *** missing separator.  Stop.
> 
> (...)
> 
> Additional context:
> 
> I am performing this build on a Linux x86_64 (AMD64) machine, not on a FreeBSD host.

The FreeBSD ports tree does not support cross-compilation, neither from
non-FreeBSD hosts, nor from other architectures.  Thus, what you wish to
do will not work.

Here's what you could do:

 1. install FreeBSD in a VM
 2. go to /usr/port/security/wazuh-agent
 3. as root execute, "make package".  This will recursively build all dependencies
    for the the port as well as the port itself.  You will be asked to set options
    for various ports.  Unless you know what you are doing, just leave the options
    unchanged.
 4. find the package in /usr/port/security/wazuh-agent/work/pkg/

Note that the package has dependencies and as such likely cannot be directly installed
by users, unless they happen to have those dependencies installed in the right version.
It is a good idea to instead point your users to the FreeBSD package repositories,
which include this package.  They can just type "pkg install security/wazuh-agent" to
get it.

Yours,
Robert Clausecker

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