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  • From: "blackwater dev" <blackwaterdev AT gmail.com>
  • To: "FreeTDS Development Group" <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [freetds] error on make
  • Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:30:30 -0400

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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