Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 22:29:26 -0800 From: Tony Jones <tony@tonyjones.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: how to build Spamassassin Message-ID: <20031209062926.B3F56579@zebedee.tonyjones.com>
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Hi.
Over time I've got into the habit of either using packages or building
directly from the source. Last time I tried this (Postfix) and asked a Q
here, I was rapped over the knuckles :-) and told to use the Ports.
Right now I'm trying to build spamassassin, so I decided I'd be good and do
it the Ports way.
My current system is 4.9-PRERELEASE #5, upgraded for many years from src
using CTM.
- Read the handbook, ran /stand/sysinstall to get the ports tree, this failed
not finding the download location on ftp.freebsd.org and telling me to
manually change it
- So I went and got it manually. Was a little confused as many years ago
I recalled their being a ports tree per release. Now ports-stable and
ports-current both point to ports.
- I downloaded ports,tar.gz. Unpacked it and changed into
ports/mail/p5-Mail-SpamAssassin"
- Did a make which immediately failed with
"Makefile", line 27: Malformed conditional (${PERL_LEVEL} < 500600)
"Makefile", line 27: Need an operator
"Makefile", line 31: if-less endif
"Makefile", line 31: Need an operator
"Makefile", line 33: Malformed conditional (${PERL_LEVEL} < 500800)
"Makefile", line 33: Need an operator
"Makefile", line 35: if-less endif
"Makefile", line 35: Need an operator
I recalled being able to make individual ports this way in the past.
So, this not working, I went and grabbed the sources for Mail-SpamAssassin-2.60
and figured I'd try building it manually.
trying: perl -MCPAN -e shell (which is the INSTALL files recommended way)
just generated lots of messages telling me to install Bundle::libnet ASAP
and when I did, it failed to install and seems to have messed up the perl
packages on my system.
So, two questions:
1) How can I reinstall perl 5.005_03 (make install from /usr/src)
2) Once I have the perl restored, what is the best way to install SpamAssassin
on 4.9 ?
Thanks
Tony (who hates perl)
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