FREEBSD: make install Unknown modifier ‘u’ Variable ALL_OPTIONS is recursive

I am looking for a method to remove the make error message I am getting. Please let me know if there is any suitable solution. My uname -a returns the following:

FreeBSD SM2-BSD 6.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE #0: Wed Jan 16 04:18:52 UTC 2008     root@dessler.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386

UPDATE: My make command is running on my old linux machine which is of the same configuration as my new one, running FreeBSD 6.3. I am not getting any errors in that. I tried copying this make file to my new machine, but its still giving the same error.

I have just done portsnap update and am facing an error whenever I am trying to do a make install in any of the ports packages. I am getting the following error

make install
Unknown modifier 'u'

Variable ALL_OPTIONS is recursive.

I have tried deleting the /usr/ports/Mk and /usr/ports/lang/tcl84 and doing portsnap fetch again as suggested in http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=32376 but I am getting the same error again.

I also tried copying a working make binary from my other machine and pasted it into /user/bin/make into my new machine but to no avail.

I have even tried downloading the Make files and installing them from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/make-3.82.tar.gz by running the following command in the extracted folder:

./configure
make
make check
make install
make distclean

This is the output I have got while running the above commands were:

[root@SM2-BSD ~/stuff/make-3.82]# ./configure >> logfile
config.status: WARNING:  'po/Makefile.in.in' seems to ignore the --datarootdir setting
[root@SM2-BSD ~/stuff/make-3.82]# make >> logfile
In file included from glob.c:1377:
glob.c: In function `glob_in_dir':
glob.c:199: warning: passing arg 1 of `my_realloc' from incompatible pointer type
In file included from glob.c:812:
glob.c: In function `glob':
glob.c:199: warning: passing arg 1 of `my_realloc' from incompatible pointer type
In file included from glob.c:931:
glob.c:199: warning: passing arg 1 of `my_realloc' from incompatible pointer type
In file included from glob.c:987:
glob.c:199: warning: passing arg 1 of `my_realloc' from incompatible pointer type
[root@SM2-BSD ~/stuff/make-3.82]# make install >> logfile

And my logfile reads:

checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... config/install-sh -c -d
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... no
checking for nawk... nawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables... 
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for ar... ar
checking for perl... perl
checking build system type... i386-unknown-freebsd6.3
checking host system type... i386-unknown-freebsd6.3
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep
checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking minix/config.h usability... no
checking minix/config.h presence... no
checking for minix/config.h... no
checking whether it is safe to define __EXTENSIONS__... yes
checking for strerror in -lcposix... no
checking whether NLS is requested... yes
checking for msgfmt... /usr/local/bin/msgfmt
checking for gmsgfmt... /usr/local/bin/msgfmt
checking for xgettext... /usr/local/bin/xgettext
checking for msgmerge... /usr/local/bin/msgmerge
checking for ld used by GCC... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for shared library run path origin... done
checking whether NLS is requested... yes
checking for GNU gettext in libc... no
checking for iconv... yes
checking how to link with libiconv... /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib
checking for GNU gettext in libintl... yes
checking whether to use NLS... yes
checking for GNU gettext in libc... no
checking for iconv... yes
checking how to link with libiconv... /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib
checking for GNU gettext in libintl... yes
checking whether to use NLS... yes
checking where the gettext function comes from... external libintl
checking how to link with libintl... /usr/local/lib/libintl.so -L/usr/local/lib /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib
checking for special C compiler options needed for large files... no
checking for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS value needed for large files... no
checking for library containing getpwnam... none required
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checking for dirent.h that defines DIR... yes
checking for library containing opendir... none required
checking whether stat file-mode macros are broken... no
checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes
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checking sys/time.h presence... yes
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checking sys/timeb.h presence... yes
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checking stdarg.h presence... yes
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checking whether gcc and cc understand -c and -o together... yes
checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes
checking return type of signal handlers... void
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configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating glob/Makefile
config.status: creating po/Makefile.in
config.status: creating config/Makefile
config.status: creating doc/Makefile
config.status: creating w32/Makefile
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: config.h is unchanged
config.status: executing depfiles commands
config.status: executing default-1 commands
config.status: creating po/POTFILES
config.status: creating po/Makefile
config.status: creating build.sh
make  all-recursive
Making all in glob
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I..    -I/usr/local/include  -g -O2 -MT glob.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/glob.Tpo -c -o glob.o glob.c
mv -f .deps/glob.Tpo .deps/glob.Po
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I..    -I/usr/local/include  -g -O2 -MT fnmatch.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/fnmatch.Tpo -c -o fnmatch.o fnmatch.c
mv -f .deps/fnmatch.Tpo .deps/fnmatch.Po
rm -f libglob.a
ar cru libglob.a glob.o fnmatch.o 
ranlib libglob.a
Making all in config
Making all in po
Making all in doc
gcc -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\" -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/local/lib\" -DINCLUDEDIR=\"/usr/local/include\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.  -I./glob   -I/usr/local/include  -g -O2 -MT ar.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/ar.Tpo -c -o ar.o ar.c
mv -f .deps/ar.Tpo .deps/ar.Po
gcc -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\" -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/local/lib\" -DINCLUDEDIR=\"/usr/local/include\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.  -I./glob   -I/usr/local/include  -g -O2 -MT arscan.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/arscan.Tpo -c -o arscan.o arscan.c
mv -f .deps/arscan.Tpo .deps/arscan.Po
gcc -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\" -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/local/lib\" -DINCLUDEDIR=\"/usr/local/include\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.  -I./glob   -I/usr/local/include  -g -O2 -MT commands.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/commands.Tpo -c -o commands.o commands.c
mv -f .deps/commands.Tpo .deps/commands.Po
gcc -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\" -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/local/lib\" -DINCLUDEDIR=\"/usr/local/include\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.  -I./glob   -I/usr/local/include  -g -O2 -MT default.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/default.Tpo -c -o default.o default.c
mv -f .deps/default.Tpo .deps/default.Po
gcc -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\" -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/local/lib\" -DINCLUDEDIR=\"/usr/local/include\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.  -I./glob   -I/usr/local/include  -g -O2 -MT dir.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/dir.Tpo -c -o dir.o dir.c
mv -f .deps/dir.Tpo .deps/dir.Po
gcc -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\" -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/local/lib\" -DINCLUDEDIR=\"/usr/local/include\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.  -I./glob   -I/usr/local/include  -g -O2 -MT expand.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/expand.Tpo -c -o expand.o expand.c
mv -f .deps/expand.Tpo .deps/expand.Po
gcc -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\" -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/local/lib\" -DINCLUDEDIR=\"/usr/local/include\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.  -I./glob   -I/usr/local/include  -g -O2 -MT file.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/file.Tpo -c -o file.o file.c
mv -f .deps/file.Tpo .deps/file.Po
gcc -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\" -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/local/lib\" -DINCLUDEDIR=\"/usr/local/include\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.  -I./glob   -I/usr/local/include  -g -O2 -MT function.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/function.Tpo -c -o function.o function.c
mv -f .deps/function.Tpo .deps/function.Po
gcc -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\" -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/local/lib\" -DINCLUDEDIR=\"/usr/local/include\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.  -I./glob   -I/usr/local/include  -g -O2 -MT getopt.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/getopt.Tpo -c -o getopt.o getopt.c
mv -f .deps/getopt.Tpo .deps/getopt.Po
gcc -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\" -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/local/lib\" -DINCLUDEDIR=\"/usr/local/include\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.  -I./glob   -I/usr/local/include  -g -O2 -MT getopt1.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/getopt1.Tpo -c -o getopt1.o getopt1.c
mv -f .deps/getopt1.Tpo .deps/getopt1.Po
gcc -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\" -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/local/lib\" -DINCLUDEDIR=\"/usr/local/include\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.  -I./glob   -I/usr/local/include  -g -O2 -MT implicit.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/implicit.Tpo -c -o implicit.o implicit.c
mv -f .deps/implicit.Tpo .deps/implicit.Po
gcc -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\" -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/local/lib\" -DINCLUDEDIR=\"/usr/local/include\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.  -I./glob   -I/usr/local/include  -g -O2 -MT job.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/job.Tpo -c -o job.o job.c
mv -f .deps/job.Tpo .deps/job.Po
gcc -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\" -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/local/lib\" -DINCLUDEDIR=\"/usr/local/include\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.  -I./glob   -I/usr/local/include  -g -O2 -MT main.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/main.Tpo -c -o main.o main.c
mv -f .deps/main.Tpo .deps/main.Po
gcc -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\" -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/local/lib\" -DINCLUDEDIR=\"/usr/local/include\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.  -I./glob   -I/usr/local/include  -g -O2 -MT misc.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/misc.Tpo -c -o misc.o misc.c
mv -f .deps/misc.Tpo .deps/misc.Po
gcc -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\" -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/local/lib\" -DINCLUDEDIR=\"/usr/local/include\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.  -I./glob   -I/usr/local/include  -g -O2 -MT read.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/read.Tpo -c -o read.o read.c
mv -f .deps/read.Tpo .deps/read.Po
gcc -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\" -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/local/lib\" -DINCLUDEDIR=\"/usr/local/include\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.  -I./glob   -I/usr/local/include  -g -O2 -MT remake.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/remake.Tpo -c -o remake.o remake.c
mv -f .deps/remake.Tpo .deps/remake.Po
gcc -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\" -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/local/lib\" -DINCLUDEDIR=\"/usr/local/include\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.  -I./glob   -I/usr/local/include  -g -O2 -MT remote-stub.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/remote-stub.Tpo -c -o remote-stub.o remote-stub.c
mv -f .deps/remote-stub.Tpo .deps/remote-stub.Po
gcc -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\" -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/local/lib\" -DINCLUDEDIR=\"/usr/local/include\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.  -I./glob   -I/usr/local/include  -g -O2 -MT rule.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/rule.Tpo -c -o rule.o rule.c
mv -f .deps/rule.Tpo .deps/rule.Po
gcc -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\" -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/local/lib\" -DINCLUDEDIR=\"/usr/local/include\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.  -I./glob   -I/usr/local/include  -g -O2 -MT signame.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/signame.Tpo -c -o signame.o signame.c
mv -f .deps/signame.Tpo .deps/signame.Po
gcc -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\" -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/local/lib\" -DINCLUDEDIR=\"/usr/local/include\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.  -I./glob   -I/usr/local/include  -g -O2 -MT strcache.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/strcache.Tpo -c -o strcache.o strcache.c
mv -f .deps/strcache.Tpo .deps/strcache.Po
gcc -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\" -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/local/lib\" -DINCLUDEDIR=\"/usr/local/include\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.  -I./glob   -I/usr/local/include  -g -O2 -MT variable.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/variable.Tpo -c -o variable.o variable.c
mv -f .deps/variable.Tpo .deps/variable.Po
gcc -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\" -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/local/lib\" -DINCLUDEDIR=\"/usr/local/include\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.  -I./glob   -I/usr/local/include  -g -O2 -MT version.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/version.Tpo -c -o version.o version.c
mv -f .deps/version.Tpo .deps/version.Po
gcc -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\" -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/local/lib\" -DINCLUDEDIR=\"/usr/local/include\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.  -I./glob   -I/usr/local/include  -g -O2 -MT vpath.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/vpath.Tpo -c -o vpath.o vpath.c
mv -f .deps/vpath.Tpo .deps/vpath.Po
gcc -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\" -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/local/lib\" -DINCLUDEDIR=\"/usr/local/include\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.  -I./glob   -I/usr/local/include  -g -O2 -MT hash.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/hash.Tpo -c -o hash.o hash.c
mv -f .deps/hash.Tpo .deps/hash.Po
gcc  -g -O2   -o make ar.o arscan.o commands.o  default.o dir.o expand.o  file.o function.o getopt.o  getopt1.o implicit.o job.o  main.o misc.o read.o remake.o  remote-stub.o rule.o signame.o  strcache.o variable.o version.o  vpath.o hash.o glob/libglob.a  /usr/local/li
b/libintl.so -L/usr/local/lib /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib   
Making install in glob
Making install in config
Making install in po
/bin/sh ../config/mkinstalldirs /usr/local/share
installing be.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo
installing da.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo
installing de.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo
installing es.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo
installing fi.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo
installing fr.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo
installing ga.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo
installing gl.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo
installing he.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo
installing hr.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo
installing id.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo
installing it.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo
installing ja.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo
installing ko.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo
installing lt.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo
installing nl.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo
installing pl.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo
installing pt_BR.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo
installing ru.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo
installing sv.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo
installing tr.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo
installing uk.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo
installing vi.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo
installing zh_CN.gmo as /usr/local/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/make.mo
if test "make" = "gettext-tools"; then  /bin/sh ../config/mkinstalldirs /usr/local/share/gettext/po;  for file in Makefile.in.in remove-potcdate.sin  quot.sed boldquot.sed en@quot.header en@boldquot.header insert-header.sin Rules-quot   Makevars.template; do  /usr/bin/i
nstall -c -m 644 ./$file  /usr/local/share/gettext/po/$file;  done;  for file in Makevars; do  rm -f /usr/local/share/gettext/po/$file;  done;  else  : ;  fi
Making install in doc
test -z "/usr/local/share/info" || ../config/install-sh -c -d "/usr/local/share/info"
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./make.info ./make.info-1 ./make.info-2 '/usr/local/share/info'
 install-info --info-dir='/usr/local/share/info' '/usr/local/share/info/make.info'
test -z "/usr/local/bin" || config/install-sh -c -d "/usr/local/bin"
  /usr/bin/install -c make '/usr/local/bin'
test -z "/usr/local/share/man/man1" || config/install-sh -c -d "/usr/local/share/man/man1"
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 make.1 '/usr/local/share/man/man1'