The main reason for this error is that you are not executing make from the
source root. When you invoke make, unless you specify otherwise, it will
look in the current working directory for its Makefile.

Keary Suska
Esoteritech, Inc.
"Leveraging Open Source for a better Internet"

> From: "jitin  " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 22 Jul 2001 15:16:10 -0000
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: HELP:make setup check gives a fatal error
> 
> I have got stuck up at the third step of the installation of qmail:ANY
> SUGGESTIONS WILL BE APPRECIATED
> 
> The INSTALL FILE SAYS:
> 
> To create configure qmail
> 1. Create the qmail home directory:
> # mkdir /var/qmail
> 
> 2. Read INSTALL.ids. You must set up the qmail group and the qmail
> users before compiling the programs.
> 
> 3. Compile the programs and create the qmail directory tree:
> # make setup check
> 
> THE ERROR:
> Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.8 Generic February 2000
> 
> # make setup check
> make: Fatal error: Don't know how to make target `setup'
> 
> The man for "make" command exists .
> 
> 
> 
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