Re: perdition on freebsd 5.5-RELEASE-p8

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:17:28AM +0200, Christian Schoepplein wrote:
> 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.

Great, good to hear that it is working.

-- 
Simon Horman
  VA Linux Systems Japan K.K., Sydney, Australia Satellite Office
  H: www.vergenet.net/~horms/             W: www.valinux.co.jp/en

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