After some correspondence with a FreeBSD team member and a port maintainer, I decided to start afresh with a kernel and world reinstall. This led me to the solution. The email excerpted below mentioned almost the same error I was seeing:
http://www.atm.tut.fi/list-archive/freebsd-stable/msg04153.html
For the last week or so, I've been having trouble building kernels against a
RELENG_4 source tree. A 'make buildkernel' from /usr/src fails as follows:
perl5 /usr/src/sys/kern/vnode_if.pl -h /usr/src/sys/kern/vnode_if.src syntax error at /usr/src/sys/kern/vnode_if.pl line 135, near "{}" Execution of /usr/src/sys/kern/vnode_if.pl aborted due to compilation errors.
I took the advice suggested below.
http://www.atm.tut.fi/list-archive/freebsd-stable/msg04174.html
I believe I have these resolved.
If anybody's interested, it took a reboot, buildworld followed by an install
from /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl, then buildkernel went fine. At Mike
Tansca's suggestion, I'd tried a buildworld (against a fresh source tree),
and I was getting cc errors - the reboot appears to have fixed those. My
build machine is now happily running a new kernel/world.
Some packages are building OK but I still see issues on some ports.
Any ideas how this might have gotten into this state and how I can resolve it completely?
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Paul Beard
<www.paulbeard.org/>
paulbeard [at] mac.com
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