Re: perdition on freebsd 5.5-RELEASE-p8

Hi Simon,

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 05:38:23PM +1000, Simon Horman wrote:
>On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 03:42:12PM +0200, Christian Schoepplein wrote:
>> I try to install perdition on a freebsd 5.5-RELEASE-p8 machine, but 
>> unfortunatly without success :(.
>> 
>> The following error occures  when I try to install from ports:
>> 
>> # pwd
>> /usr/ports/mail/perdition
>> # make
>> [...]
>> checking for crypt in -lcrypt... yes
>> checking for poptGetContext in -lpopt... no
>> configure: error: ""
>> "**********************************************************************"
>> "* perdition requires the popt options parsing library available from"
>> "* ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/ and mirrors."
>> "**********************************************************************"
>> 
>> ===>  Script "configure" failed unexpectedly.
>> Please report the problem to [email protected] [maintainer] and attach 
>> the "/usr/ports/mail/perdition/work/perdition-1.17.1/config.log" 
>> including the output of the failure of your make command. Also, it might 
>> be a good idea to provide an overview of all packages installed on your 
>> system (e.g. an `ls /var/db/pkg`).
>> *** Error code 1
>> 
>> Stop in /usr/ports/mail/perdition.
>> 
>> But popt ist installed:
>> 
>> # pkg_info | grep popt
>> popt-1.7_5          A getopt(3) like library with a number of enhancements, fro
>> # ls /usr/local/lib | grep popt
>> libpopt.a
>> libpopt.la
>> libpopt.so
>> libpopt.so.0
>> 
>> Even if I try to compile perdition manualy the popt library can not be 
>> found.
>> 
>> Has anyone a hint what I can do to get perdition up and running on my 
>> freebsd machine?
>
>Are the popt development files present on your system,
>in particular popt.h? In /usr/local/include ?

Yes, the files are there.

>If they are there, then try looking in config.log, but I suspect
>that the problem is that configure isn't looking
>into /usr/local/lib or /usr/local/include. If so, I wonder
>if the following would help:
>
>export CFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include"
>export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib"
>make

Great, Simon, that worked! Thanks a lot! Only the first command was 
necesary then perdition was builded out of the port sources.

Ciao,

  Christian


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