Solaris make says: make: Fatal error in reader: Makefile, line 397: Badly formed macro assignment It is fine with NetBSD's bmake and GNU gmake. Anyways, it is not used by any target. This was to choose the HTML-renderer.
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ EXTRA_DIST = bind10-guide.css
EXTRA_DIST += bind10-guide.xml bind10-guide.html bind10-guide.txt
EXTRA_DIST += bind10-messages.xml bind10-messages.html
-HTML2TXT ?= elinks -dump -no-numbering -no-references
+HTML2TXT = elinks -dump -no-numbering -no-references
bind10-guide.txt: bind10-guide.html
$(HTML2TXT) $(srcdir)/bind10-guide.html > $@