Error installing Apache from port with NSS

edflecko edflecko at gmail.com
Mon Jun 4 22:49:52 UTC 2018


Thank you.

Oddly, there is no "configure" file. There are Makefile, Makefile.options
and Makefile.options.desc.

Perhaps there's a Makefile option that needs to be altered?

Ed:





On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 3:24 PM, Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:

> On Mon, 4 Jun 2018 14:33:33 -0700, edflecko wrote:
> > The error message I eventually get is:
> >
> > "configure: error: Crypto was requested but no crypto library could be
> > enabled; specify the location of a crypto library using --with-openssl,
> > --with-nss, and/or --with-commoncrypto."
> >
> > I then ran: make deinstall clean for the Apache port, installed NSS from
> > the port, and re-ran my Apache install and I still get the same error.
> >
> > I see the error message clearly says to " specify the location of a
> crypto
> > library using --with-openssl, --with-nss..." but I don't know how to do
> > that.
> >
> > Suggestions?
>
> This is an error message primarily intended for using the
> "configure" script (in the classic sense of "./configure &&
> make && make install" way of installing things). Those options
> will instruct "configure" how to generate the Makefile that
> will control the build.
>
> You should be able to use something like this:
>
>         # ./configure --with-nss
>         # make
>         # make install
>
> from within the port's work directory (just check where
> the configure script is).
>
> However, the FreeBSD ports infrastructure should be the
> preferred means so you do not have to do this. :-)
>
>
>
>
> --
> Polytropon
> Magdeburg, Germany
> Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
> Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
>


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