[freetds] error on make
blackwater dev
blackwaterdev at gmail.com
Wed Apr 11 09:30:30 EDT 2007
James,
I'm a linux newb and can do the ./configure, make, make install, etc. Not
sure exactly what you mean by touch.
Thanks!
On 4/11/07, James K. Lowden <jklowden at freetds.org> wrote:
>
> blackwater dev wrote:
> > I'm currently moving my site to a site hosted by dreamhost and am having
> > problems installing freetds.
> >
> > I installed it to my home directory but get this error after the make.
> >
> > make[1]: Entering directory
> > `/home/.minnie/blackwaterdev/freetds-0.64/doc' ./txt2man -I 'FreeTDS
> > User Guide' -v 'FreeTDS Utilities' -t FreeTDS -r 0.64./freebcp.txt
> > >.freebcp.1
> > /bin/sh: line 1: ./txt2man: No such file or directory
> > make[1]: *** [freebcp.1] Error 127
> > make[1]: Leaving directory
> > `/home/.minnie/blackwaterdev/freetds-0.64/doc' make: *** [all-recursive]
> > Error 1
> >
> > What am I doing wrong?
>
> I'm not sure. I'm not sure why make decided it needed to build the
> freebcp man page, because it's provided in the tarball:
>
> $ pax -zf freetds-0.64.tar.gz | grep 1$
> freetds-0.64/doc/freebcp.1
> freetds-0.64/doc/tsql.1
> freetds-0.64/doc/bsqldb.1
> freetds-0.64/doc/defncopy.1
> freetds-0.64/doc/datacopy.1
>
> You *could* download txt2man from almost anywhere, and maybe that would
> help, but I'd guess whatever made make(1) think it needs to build man
> pages will also mess up other things.
>
> Another option is to "touch freebcp.1" (and so on), telling make(1) not to
> build them. The overall build would then work, and you could copy the man
> pages, should you so desire, to your dreamhost server.
>
> I've heard good things about dreamhost btw. Hope it works out for you.
>
> --jkl
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