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  1. Dec 14th, 2002, 10:49 PM #1
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    Makefiles on freeBSD [RESOLVED: thanks]

    Ive looked everywhere for information on Makefiles on FreeBSD, theres loads of it but the problem is I cant get anything to work I just got my freeBSD and I would like to install netcat on it. Ive extracted it into a folder which has some weird files in it, such as a file named "Makefile". What exactly am I ment to do to install it? Ive wasted hours on this so far
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  2. Dec 15th, 2002, 12:11 AM #2
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    Try typing 'make' and (as root) 'make install'
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  3. Dec 15th, 2002, 12:20 AM #3
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    Thanks, unfourtunatly I couldnt get it to work. I went into the same directory as them, then tried "make" it then said something about usage of 'make' then when I tried 'make install' it said it doesnt know how to make install
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    Read the readme =P. Its quite possible you need to do something else before you can actually mkae what you want to make =).

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  6. Dec 15th, 2002, 12:57 AM #5
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    Il look for it again, maybe I might get lucky this time.
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  7. Dec 15th, 2002, 04:06 AM #6
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    nup, no luck whenever I find something on Makefiles I dont understand what exactly Im ment to do, Please be patient with me, Im only 14.
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  8. Dec 15th, 2002, 09:40 AM #7
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    Usually to install a program from source on a *nix platform, you need gcc (the gnu c compiler). Once you're sure you have this, usually you do something similar to this:
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su -c 'make install'
    That should work. If you're not superuser, you need to su to it to install it to the correct directory (unless you have write access to /usr, where most programs are installed).
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  9. Dec 15th, 2002, 09:52 AM #8
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    Just looked into this one, and all you had to do was look at the README. It states that to make it, all you have to do is type "make <systype>". Since you are on freeBSD, I looked at the makefile and it has a target for make freebsd. So that's what you should type.
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    make freebsd
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  11. Dec 15th, 2002, 02:43 PM #9
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    YAY! Thank you! I finnaly got it working ) For some reason whenever I try './CONFIGURE' it would say its not a command, but I read what you said, and I read some stuff in the Makefile and managed to get it working with "make -e freebsd" Thanks, I owe you a favour now lol.
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