Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 22:44:45 +1100 From: Tony Frank <tfrank@optushome.com.au> To: "greater_wyrm@yahoo.com.au" <greater_wyrm@yahoo.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make is not working for me Message-ID: <20040218114445.GC289@marvin.home.local> In-Reply-To: <40324362.6050208@yahoo.com.au> References: <40324362.6050208@yahoo.com.au>
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Hi there, On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 12:37:54AM +0800, greater_wyrm@yahoo.com.au wrote: > forgive the newbie question please > > I am trying to install a package called bpalogin (it authorises Bigpond > Broadband Cable users (Bigpond is an ISP in Australia)) and I have > followed the instructions from the > http://bpalogin.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=download > > I have untarred th file and tried a make > the result is > "/usr/share/mk/bsd.own.mk", line 0: Cannot open /usr/share/mk/bsd.own.mk > "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 0: Cannot open /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk > make: fatal errors encoutered --cannot continue > > I have set write permissions on both files and write and execute > permission on the Directories > > I would like some pointers to what to look for. > > I have a clean minimal install of 5.2 > > Thanks everyone Personally speaking, the port setup is a bit out of date. It hasn't been updated in quite a while (whereas the FreeBSD ports environment has changed) and it actually refers to v2.0 of bpalogin anyway. I suggest you grab the unix source directly and use it instead: % fetch http://bpalogin.sourceforge.net/download/bpalogin-2.0.2.tar.gz % tar zxvf bpalogin-2.0.2.tar.gz % cd bpalogin-2.0.2 % ./configure % make Personally the 'make install' had a few issues for me. Personally I would use: % install -m 755 bpalogin /usr/local/sbin % install -m 600 bpalogin.conf /usr/local/etc % install -m 755 bpalogin.bsd /usr/local/etc/rc.d/bpalogin.sh Then edit /usr/local/etc/bpalogin.conf to set relevant options. % vi /usr/local/etc/bpalogin.conf You should be able to start it up with: % /usr/local/etc/rc.d/bpalogin.sh start Note I have not personally used the software, but 2.0.2 compiles cleanly on my 4.9 system and I expect it will compile ok on 5.2 also. Regards, Tony
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