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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: INN w/ FreeBSD
Date: 3 Jun 1997 11:27:14 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <geoffrey.865283176@beethoven.iavalley.cc.ia.us>,
	geoffrey@beethoven.iavalley.cc.ia.us (geoffrey alexander) writes:
> "Steve Koch" <Steve.Koch@nctsw.navy.mil> writes:
> 
>>Has anyone successfully configured Inn 1.5.1 w/ FreeBSD.  I've tried it
>>with FreeBSD 2.1, 2.1.5, & 2.2.2 w/ no luck.  I figured the port would be
>>pretty easy to compile but during the make all portion of the compile it
>>get the error:
>>ld: -lperl: no match
> 
>>Stop.
>>*** Error code 1
> ....
>>Any ideas?  Any info would be appreciated.  Thanks.
> 
> I installed ok (I think I had perl 5.003 installed, so that might be the
> prob) but, for the record, I found it to be so poorly documented as to be
> worthless (yes, I tried ALL the various current INN websites. Worthless).
> 
> IMO, of course.

Persevere.  It's a good package, the documentation as you point out
is at least poor.

> G.

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Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
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