Re: make fails on new Leopard install

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 05:40:20PM -0800, Jay Chandler wrote:
> I think I may have forgotten to install some dependency or another, but 
> damned if I can figure out what I'm missing.
>
> Configure completes successfully, but then:
>
> singularity:nmap jchandler$ make
> Compiling liblua
> make[1]: `liblua.a' is up to date.
> Compiling libpcre
>  cd . && /bin/sh /Users/jchandler/sources/nmap/missing --run  
> automake-1.10 --gnu
> configure.ac:424: required file `./config.sub' not found
> configure.ac:424:   `automake --add-missing' can install `config.sub'
> configure.ac:17: required file `./missing' not found
> configure.ac:17:   `automake --add-missing' can install `missing'
> configure.ac:17: required file `./install-sh' not found
> configure.ac:17:   `automake --add-missing' can install `install-sh'
> configure.ac:424: required file `./config.guess' not found
> configure.ac:424:   `automake --add-missing' can install `config.guess'
> Makefile.am: required file `./NEWS' not found
> Makefile.am: required file `./ChangeLog' not found
> Makefile.am: required file `./COPYING' not found
> Makefile.am:   `automake --add-missing' can install `COPYING'
> Makefile.am: required file `./depcomp' not found
> Makefile.am:   `automake --add-missing' can install `depcomp'
> make[1]: *** [Makefile.in] Error 1
> make: *** [pcre_build] Error 2
> singularity:nmap jchandler$

You're not missing any dependency, you just have the wrong modification
times on some files in libpcre. The makefile thinks they are out of date
and wants to rebuild them. Try

        cd libpcre
        touch Makefile.in
        touch Makefile

David Fifield

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