Lisa Casey wrote:
Ok but this basically sucks. I'm sure I should be installing from ports.
Me too.
But I don't seem to be able to do that, and I do know how to install source files.
When I try to do a pkg_add to install the mimedefang port that I've downloaded from freebsd.org, I get this:
pkg_add installs package (a pre-compiled binary), not port.
radius# pkg_add -r mimedefang.tar.gz
Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4
-stable/Latest/mimedefang.tar.gz.tgz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no
access)
pkg_add: unable to fetch `ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-
4-stable/Latest/mimedefang.tar.gz.tgz' by URL
I have rarely, if ever at all, used pkg_add (I prefer ports), but I don't think that using argument 'mimedefang.tar.gz' is correct.
So I moved the tarball over to /usr/ports/distfiles, extracted it and ran make.
If you have decided to install from source tarball, you should perform the installation outside the ports tree.
That resulted in:
radius# more distinfo MD5 (mimedefang-2.51.tar.gz) = 9c4df4ec349e414f893c940ff563bea5 SIZE (mimedefang-2.51.tar.gz) = 302006 radius# make "Makefile", line 53: Malformed conditional (${PERL_LEVEL} < 500601) "Makefile", line 53: Need an operator "Makefile", line 55: if-less endif "Makefile", line 55: Need an operator make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
You are probably trying to run BSD make against a GNU makefile. If you really want to install from source tarball, use gmake.
At this rate it'll be forever before I get mimedefang installed and in the meantime I have customers upset because they are receiving unacceptable levels of spam. Surely someone can help me out with installing mimedefang from source
At this stage I'd still recommend using ports. Just read 'man ports', as well as Section 4.5 of the Handbook, to get your confusion cleared up :-)
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