From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 12 7: 0:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (sirius-ether.rz.uni-ulm.de [134.60.1.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FDB037B51F for ; Sat, 12 Aug 2000 07:00:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from siegbert.baude@gmx.de) Received: from gmx.de (lilith.wohnheim.uni-ulm.de [134.60.106.64]) by mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA07434; Sat, 12 Aug 2000 16:00:22 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <39955875.C8D883CC@gmx.de> Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 16:00:21 +0200 From: Siegbert Baude X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Odhiambo Washington , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE and Exim References: <20000812144814.A15093@siafu.iconnect.co.ke> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello Odhiambo, > Does anyone have an idea how I can run Exim on this platform? I have > 4.1-RELEASE but I cannot get exim in the ports. Trying make install in the > /usr/ports/mail/exim tells me it is 'prohibited' because of some reason. Tried it one minute ago: It compiles just fine for me on 4.1-Stable. Make sure to be root, when making some programs out of the port tree. Otherwise you will get: [...] Receiving exim-texinfo-3.10.tar.gz: 310713 bytes 310713 bytes transferred in 2.2 seconds (136.72 kBps) ===> Extracting for exim-3.16 >> Checksum OK for exim-3.16.tar.gz. >> Checksum OK for exim-texinfo-3.10.tar.gz. ===> exim-3.16 depends on shared library: X11.6 - found mkdir: /usr/ports/mail/exim/work: Permission denied *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/mail/exim. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/mail/exim. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/mail/exim. bash-2.04$ If you tried compiling as root, try to separate the steps of make to know exactly, where the error happens. Do: make extract make configure make make install make clean (or make distclean) and then report the exact error again. Ciao Siegbert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message