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Question

I have a problem installing package dionaea.

After I type this:

./configure --with-lcfg-include=/opt/dionaea/include/ \\
--with-lcfg-lib         


        

Answer 1

./configure command should generate a makefile, named makefile or Makefile. if in the directory there is no this file, you should check whether the configure command execute success.

in my case, I configure the apr-util:

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apr-util --with-apr=/usr/local/apr/bin/apr-1-config

because the --with-apr=/usr/local/apr/bin/apr-1-config, the apr did not install yet, so there configure fail, there did not generate the apr's /usr/local/apr/bin/apr-1-config.

So I install the apr, then configure the apr-util, it works.

Answer 2

If you create Makefile in the VSCode, your makefile doesnt run. I don't know the cause of this issue. Maybe the configuration of the file is not added to system. But I solved this way. delete created makefile, then go to project directory and right click mouse later create a file and named Makefile. After fill the Makefile and run it. It will work.

Answer 3

This may happen if there is any read and write permission denial to the user. Like C:\Windows\System32\ have restricted access and you are cloned and trying to make from such restricted directory.

Answer 4

I recently ran into this problem while trying to do a manual install of texane's open-source STLink utility on Ubuntu. The solution was, oddly enough,

make clean
make

Answer 5

You had to have something like this:

"configure: error: "Error: libcrypto required."

after your ./configure runs. So you need to resolve noticed dependencies first and then try ./configure once more time and then run make !

Answer 6

make takes a makefile as input. Makefile usually is named makefile or Makefile. The configure command should generate a makefile, so that make could be in turn executed. Check if a makefile has been generated under your working directory.