make is not working for me

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 12:37:54AM +0800, greater_wyrm at yahoo.com.au wrote:
> forgive the newbie question please
> 
> I am trying to install a package called bpalogin (it authorises Bigpond 
> Broadband Cable users (Bigpond is an ISP in Australia)) and I have 
> followed the instructions from the 
> http://bpalogin.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=download
> 
> I have untarred th file and tried a make
> the result is
> "/usr/share/mk/bsd.own.mk", line 0: Cannot open /usr/share/mk/bsd.own.mk
> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 0: Cannot open /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk
> make: fatal errors encoutered --cannot continue
> 
> I have set write permissions on both files and write and execute 
> permission on the Directories

It's trying to open those files for reading, not writing.  Please show
us a ls -l of those directories; it's possible you have a corrupted
installation.

Kris
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