Hi Jgimmy , the apology is mine and I posted a chunk .. and I thank you for bearing my newb-woes and Qs ..
so how about this :
Code:
$ cd /usr/ports/devel/gmake
$ sudo make install
===> Looking for gmake-3.82.tgz in $PKG_PATH - not found
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/ports/devel/gmake (line 1663 of /usr/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk).
`/usr/ports/pobj/gmake-3.82/fake-i386/.fake_done' is up to date.
===> Building package for gmake-3.82
Create /usr/ports/packages/i386/all/gmake-3.82.tgz
Error: /usr/ports/pobj/gmake-3.82/fake-i386/usr/local/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo does not exist
Error: /usr/ports/pobj/gmake-3.82/fake-i386/usr/local/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo does not exist
Error: /usr/ports/pobj/gmake-3.82/fake-i386/usr/local/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo does not exist
Error: /usr/ports/pobj/gmake-3.82/fake-i386/usr/local/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo does not exist
Error: /usr/ports/pobj/gmake-3.82/fake-i386/usr/local/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo does not exist
Error: /usr/ports/pobj/gmake-3.82/fake-i386/usr/local/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo does not exist
Error: /usr/ports/pobj/gmake-3.82/fake-i386/usr/local/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo does not exist
Error: /usr/ports/pobj/gmake-3.82/fake-i386/usr/local/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo does not exist
Error: /usr/ports/pobj/gmake-3.82/fake-i386/usr/local/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo does not exist
Error: /usr/ports/pobj/gmake-3.82/fake-i386/usr/local/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo does not exist
Error: /usr/ports/pobj/gmake-3.82/fake-i386/usr/local/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo does not exist
Error: /usr/ports/pobj/gmake-3.82/fake-i386/usr/local/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo does not exist
Error: /usr/ports/pobj/gmake-3.82/fake-i386/usr/local/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo does not exist
Error: /usr/ports/pobj/gmake-3.82/fake-i386/usr/local/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo does not exist
Error: /usr/ports/pobj/gmake-3.82/fake-i386/usr/local/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo does not exist
Error: /usr/ports/pobj/gmake-3.82/fake-i386/usr/local/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo does not exist
Error: /usr/ports/pobj/gmake-3.82/fake-i386/usr/local/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo does not exist
Error: /usr/ports/pobj/gmake-3.82/fake-i386/usr/local/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo does not exist
Error: /usr/ports/pobj/gmake-3.82/fake-i386/usr/local/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo does not exist
Error: /usr/ports/pobj/gmake-3.82/fake-i386/usr/local/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo does not exist
Error: /usr/ports/pobj/gmake-3.82/fake-i386/usr/local/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo does not exist
Error: /usr/ports/pobj/gmake-3.82/fake-i386/usr/local/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo does not exist
Error: /usr/ports/pobj/gmake-3.82/fake-i386/usr/local/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo does not exist
Error: /usr/ports/pobj/gmake-3.82/fake-i386/usr/local/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo does not exist
Fatal error: can't continue
at /usr/libdata/perl5/OpenBSD/PkgCreate.pm line 1248
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/ports/devel/gmake (line 1671 of /usr/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk).
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/ports/devel/gmake (line 1671 of /usr/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk).
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/ports/devel/gmake (line 2214 of /usr/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk).
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/ports/devel/gmake (line 1689 of /usr/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk).
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/ports/devel/gmake (line 2197 of /usr/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk).
$