bmake: "/usr/share/mk/*" line n: Malformed conditional about pkgsrc HOT 4 CLOSED

This sounds like you are using the wrong make. Make sure you are really using the bmake installed by pkgsrc, not some tool named bmake from your Linux distribution.

The fact that it refers to /usr/share/mk is highly suspicious.

Try an explicit /usr/pkg/bin/bmake package-install.

from pkgsrc.

apk info bmake
doas (vehementham@localhost) password: 
bmake-20240314-r0 description:
Portable version of the NetBSD make build tool

bmake-20240314-r0 webpage:
https://www.crufty.net/help/sjg/bmake.html

bmake-20240314-r0 installed size:
696 KiB

from pkgsrc.

Exactly. This won't work.

1. Uninstall the bmake package from Alpine Linux.
2. cd pkgsrc/bootstrap; ./bootstrap --prefix /usr/pkg (or whatever directory you would like).
3. export PATH=/usr/pkg/bin:/usr/pkg/sbin:$PATH
4. Use bmake package-install to install your packages.

The crucial thing is that pkgsrc only works with the bmake it has built during the bootstrap process.

from pkgsrc.

Alright thanks

from pkgsrc.