Re: "make install" error

[Daniel Liston <dliston@sonny.org>]

It looks like a typo in your Makefile to me.  You have;
PERL = usr/bin/perl
when you should have;
PERL = /usr/bin/perl

Dan Liston

Frimpong, Jacob wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> I am setting up a new install of Majordomo-1.94.5 on RedHat Linux 9.0 with
> Perl-5.8.0-88. I keep getting the following error message when I run "make
> install" although I have edited the Makefile (below) to define where Perl
> and the C compiler are. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Error
> -------------------
> [root@inside majordomo-1.94.5]# make install
> Testing for perl (usr/bin/perl)...
> You didn't correctly tell me where Perl is.
> make: *** [config-scripts] Error 1
> 
> Makefile
> ------------------
> # Put the location of your Perl binary here:
> PERL = usr/bin/perl
> 
> # What do you call your C compiler?
> CC = /usr/bin/gcc
> 
> # Where do you want Majordomo to be installed?  This CANNOT be the
> # current directory (where you unpacked the distribution)
> W_HOME = /usr/test/majordomo-$(VERSION)
> 
> Jacob A. Frimpong
> 
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