how to build Spamassassin

[Jan Grant]

On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Tony Jones wrote:

> Hi.
>
> Over time I've got into the habit of either using packages or building
> directly from the source.  Last time I tried this (Postfix) and asked a Q
> here, I was rapped over the knuckles :-) and told to use the Ports.
>
> Right now I'm trying to build spamassassin, so I decided I'd be good and do
> it the Ports way.
>
> My current system is 4.9-PRERELEASE #5,  upgraded for many years from src
> using CTM.
>
> - Read the handbook, ran /stand/sysinstall to get the ports tree, this failed
>   not finding the download location on ftp.freebsd.org and telling me to
>   manually change it
>
> - So I went and got it manually.   Was a little confused as many years ago
>   I recalled their being a ports tree per release.  Now ports-stable and
>   ports-current both point to ports.
>
> - I downloaded ports,tar.gz.   Unpacked it and changed into
> ports/mail/p5-Mail-SpamAssassin"
>
> - Did a make which immediately failed with
>
> "Makefile", line 27: Malformed conditional (${PERL_LEVEL} < 500600)
> "Makefile", line 27: Need an operator
> "Makefile", line 31: if-less endif
> "Makefile", line 31: Need an operator
> "Makefile", line 33: Malformed conditional (${PERL_LEVEL} < 500800)
> "Makefile", line 33: Need an operator
> "Makefile", line 35: if-less endif
> "Makefile", line 35: Need an operator
>
> I recalled being able to make individual ports this way in the past.

Where did you unpack the ports tree to? /usr/share/mk/bsd.port.mk
expects /usr/ports, or the PORTSDIR variable to be set if the tree lives
elsewhere.

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