How to manually compile on FreeBSD 10.x

[Eduardo Morras]

On Wed, 3 Dec 2014 14:09:31 +0300
Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi guys,
> 
> What do I need to install on FreeBSD 10 to enable me compile stuff by
> hand?
> 
> [root at admin ~/Exim/exim-4.85_RC2]# uname -a
> FreeBSD admin.cnet.co.za 10.0-RELEASE-p12 FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE-p12
> #0: Tue Nov  4 04:15:03 UTC 2014
> root at amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
>  i386
> 
> 
> 
> [root at admin ~/Exim]# cp Makefile-Exim-4.85x.txt exim-4.85_RC2/L
> LICENCE            LICENSE.opendmarc  Local/
> [root at admin ~/Exim]# cp Makefile-Exim-4.85x.txt
> exim-4.85_RC2/Local/Makefile [root at admin ~/Exim]# cd exim-4.85_RC2
> [root at admin ~/Exim/exim-4.85_RC2]# make
> /bin/sh scripts/source_checks
> 
> >>> Creating links to source files...
> >>> Creating lookups/Makefile for building dynamic modules
> >>> New Makefile & lookups/Makefile installed
> >>> Use "make makefile" if you need to force rebuilding of the
> >>> makefile
> 
> */bin/sh ../scripts/Configure-os.h*
> */bin/sh ../scripts/Configure-os.c*
> *gcc buildconfig.c*
> *make[1]: exec(gcc) failed (No such file or directory)*
> **** Error code 1*
> 
> Stop.
> make[1]: stopped in /root/Exim/exim-4.85_RC2/build-FreeBSD-i386
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop.
> make: stopped in /root/Exim/exim-4.85_RC2

FreeBSD 10 has a new make, bmake, before we used pmake and both use a different syntax to gnu make. Try using gmake instead make. 

If gmake isn't installed, go to /usr/ports/devel/gmake as root, and type 'make install' to install it.

HTH

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Eduardo Morras <emorrasg at yahoo.es>