[cs615asa] HW2

[Darren Alton]

Are you using "make" or "bmake"?  You should be using "bmake" which is
specifically the BSD version of "make" (rather than the default GNU
one).  "bootstrap" puts it into /usr/pkg/bin, so make sure
/usr/pkg/bin is in your path.

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 3:18 AM, John Wierzchowski <jwierzch at stevens.edu> wrote:
> Hey,
> Im having a really hard time with pkgsrc, i ran into it like a brick wall.
> briefly what i did was download the tarball, unzip, the couple small configs
> from /doc/pkgsrc.txt and ran ./boostrap
> make in any of the directories of pkgsrc gives me Makefile: 40 *** missing
> separator. Stop.
> I have been trying to figure this pkgsrc thing for a few hours, and well
> lesson learned, installing software can be really really really painful.
> Could someone point me in the right direction? did i not bootstrap right?
> Professor, in the homework assignment you state to install and bootstrap
> pkgsrc, did I skip a step somewhere? I tried following the documentation
> that came with pkgsrc as best I could, but something is off for sure. oh yea
> no errors when i bootstrapped, it just said that it hopes it will work now
> :/
> Regards,
> John W
>
> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 7:11 PM, Darren Alton <dalton at stevens.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Anyone else hit this problem while trying to build db4 (as a
>> dependency of python26) with pkgsrc on Fedora 8?
>>
>> configure: error: in
>> `/root/pkgsrc/databases/db4/work/db-4.8.30/build_unix':
>> configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check
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