thank you. that was the source of the problem along with a couple of other things on freebsd on Freebsd 4.8
for the bebefit of others reading ln -s 'ed (all in usr/local/bin/) automake14 -> automake autoconf259 -> autoconf autoheader259 -> autoheader aclocal14 -> aclocal-1.4 export CPPFLAG=" -I/usr/local/include/apache2/modules/perl" not all were needed but clean up the configure.. alias make=/usr/local/bin/gmake then ran normal setup thankz again On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 08:50:39 -0500, William McKee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 08:33:18AM +0000, gotta go wrote: > > trying to install libapreq2-2.04-dev on freebsd 4.8 results in the > > following error. > > <snip> > > > make: don't know how to make all-local. Stop > > *** Error code 1 > > This looks like a make error. I've not tried to build mp2 under FreeBSD, > but I know that some programs prefer gnumake (the make program that > comes with FreeBSD is not the same; hopefully these issues will be > resolved when more projects are ported to using Module::Build). > > You can get gnumake from your ports/packages collection and retry the > build using gmake instead of make. > > Good luck, > William > > -- > Knowmad Services Inc. > http://www.knowmad.com >