make is an old Unix utility to build projects. The basic principle it uses is to track dependencies between targets (which are often files).
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./configure: error: no ~/nginx-auth-ldap/config was found
Trying to build nginx per this guide: https://calvin.me/nginx-ldap-http-authentication/
I'm on Ubuntu 16.04 and used nginx 1.12.2 instead of what he has in that guide. I modified his build script to this:
./configure --user=nginx --group=nginx…

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Ubuntu Server - installation location when building from source
I am pretty new to Ubuntu Server. I have installed libevent 1.4.13 from source but I am not exactly sure where the install location is after I do make install.

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How to distinguish rpm package files from files generated by make install
What I have:
CentOS 7 based server
Part of files (programs) set from sources (configure && make install)
No kind of sources left (no spec files, nothing)
What I need:
remove these programs set from sources and keep their config files. …

Max
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Unable to install a new version of a port -- Elixir 1.5.1 -- in FreeBsd -- "1 out of 2 hunks failed--saving rejects to Makefile.rej"
I'm trying to install Elixir 1.5 and OTP 20. I did this:
pkg install erlang-runtime20
portsnap fetch extract update
and I've changed /usr/ports/lang/elixir/Makefile to point to the latest version of Elixir and erlang:
PORTVERSION=…

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Disribute PHP files after compiling from source
I have compiled and installed multiple version of PHP on my system. When I compile my PHP, there are a few files that are not copied to to their location. For example, when I compile my PHP v7.1(PHP-FPM), its service file (./sapi/fpm/init.d.php-fpm)…

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Compile PHP 7.1.5 with PCRE 8.40
I tried to compile a PHP 7.1.5 with PCRE 8.40 on a legacy Ubuntu 12.04.05 LTS:
1, I compiled PCRE 8.40 from source to /usr/local/pcre.
2, configure PHP:
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/php7 --with-pcre-regex=/usr/local/pcre…

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PHP compile issues - stuck at 'Generating phar.phar'
I've encountered problems compiling PHP from source at one 'a bit custom' Centos 6/cPanel server.In general it worked in the past, right now it does not.
There were many different PHPs compiled at this box and without greater problems.
Right now,…

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What is the best way to build a port of a version that is only available in a newer version of FreeBSD?
I am currently supporting devices which are running FreeBSD 9.2, as well as 10. And I need to somehow install a newer version of archivers/libarchive than that which is available for these FreeBSD versions (3.2.1 seems to have first become available…

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Make fails attempting to install svn-1.0.2
Trying to figure out whats going on with this error so we can successfully install svn-1.0.2
I am using the command, echo -e "\n" |pecl install svn-1.0.2
root@us-east-1d-tengu-queuerunner-prod-141-8.mhecloud.com[/logs/apache]> echo -e "\n" |pecl…

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PostgreSQL configs are ignored
I have a custom postgresql build, that shows the following output on pg_config
BINDIR = /var/buildout.webstacks.xwiki/bin
DOCDIR = /var/buildout.webstacks.xwiki/share/doc/postgresql
HTMLDIR =…

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upgrading openssl in CentOS 7
First, I tried downloading the source tarball openssl-1.0.1s.tar.gz from openssl.org and doing a ./config && make install, and although it seems to have completed the process successfully, I don't know where the compiled code went or if it got…

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Is compiling php 5.6 with these errors ok?
I am compiling php 5.6 with the following:
sudo ./configure '--with-apxs2' '--disable-cgi' '--enable-sockets' '--enable-pcntl' '--with-readline' '--with-zlib' '--with-openssl' '--with-curl' '--enable-mbstring' '--enable-soap' '--enable-wddx'…

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How to make executable find libraries after relocation?
I am attempting to build a RPM for GNU libiconv
I have no problem compiling the source, but when I install to a temporary location the full temporary path of the shared library gets hard-coded into the iconv executable.
I tried adding…

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Compiling a specific version of a freeBSD utility
I want to compile and run a specific version of a FreeBSD utility from the source code.
For example, I downloaded the repo for the following utility: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/9/sbin/routed/
However, when I run the make command, I get…

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Resolve packages not found and errors during configure,make,make install in a script
I need to have a script that will install a package from source in a Linux system and need to know how to take care of the errors that usually come up as a result of the first step ./configure maybe a package is missing his will just kill the…

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