DragonFlyBSD

I assume you have failed to installworld before this compiling error.
If my assuming is correct then add following lines after last #include
... in src/usr.sbin/makewhatis/makewhatis.c:
#ifndef MACHINE
#define MACHINE "pc32"
#endif

Don't forget to nuke it once you have "a whole new world" :-)

BTW, before you installworld, please make sure to:
export MACHINE=pc32
Thank Sascha for this tip :-)

Best Regards,
sephe

This seems to happen when you do a buildworld with MACHINE pc32
followed by an installworld with MACHINE i386.
/usr/include/machine/param.h with the necessary definition doesn't seem
to get installed then.

I'll commit a check to installworld similar to that done for buildworld
to ensure that this can't happen.

A quick-and-dirty fix would be to edit makewhatis.c to define MACHINE
temporarily (see patch). It can be removed then after a successful {build,install}world.

Index: makewhatis.c ===================================================================
RCS file: /home/dcvs/src/usr.sbin/makewhatis/makewhatis.c,v
retrieving revision 1.2
diff u -u -r1.2 makewhatis.c
-- makewhatis.c 16 Jan 2005 04:59:53 -0000 1.2
+++ makewhatis.c 12 Nov 2006 13:13:50 -0000
@ -1021,6 +1021,10 @
whatis_proto = new_sbuf();
whatis_final = new_sbuf();

#ifndef MACHINE
#define MACHINE "pc32"
#endif

if ((machine = getenv("MACHINE")) == NULL)
machine = MACHINE;

Sascha

Sephe,

thanks, that fixed it ;-)

Thomas

Permanently fixed in:
http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/commits/2006-11/msg00068.html