From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 17 08:36:15 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A3BD16A4CE for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 08:36:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from gizmo04bw.bigpond.com (gizmo04bw.bigpond.com [144.140.70.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 777A543D1F for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 08:36:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from greater_wyrm@yahoo.com.au) Received: (qmail 1808 invoked from network); 17 Feb 2004 16:32:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO bwmam01.bigpond.com) (144.135.24.69) by gizmo04bw.bigpond.com with SMTP; 17 Feb 2004 16:32:30 -0000 Received: from cpe-144-136-230-198.wa.bigpond.net.au ([144.136.230.198]) by bwmam01.bigpond.com(MAM REL_3_4_2 8/41399869) with SMTP id 41399869; Wed, 18 Feb 2004 02:36:12 +1000 Message-ID: <40324362.6050208@yahoo.com.au> Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 00:37:54 +0800 From: "greater_wyrm@yahoo.com.au" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030827 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: make is not working for me X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 16:36:15 -0000 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