Make: not found

KiaN

Hi,

I am trying to compile xymon-4.3.3.tar.gz on my new pfSense to monitor it but I dont have the make utility and dont know how to get it:

[2.0-RC1][root@pfSense.localdomain]/root/install/xymon-4.3.3(84): ./configure --client

Configuration script for Xymon client

This script asks a few questions and builds a Makefile to compile Xymon

Checking your make-utility
make: not found
GNU make is required to build Xymon.
If it is available as "gmake", run configure as: 'MAKE=gmake ./configure.client'

Any help on installing a basic compiling environment would be appreciated :)

Edit: account registered in 2006, no new message since 2007: I guess I have been away for a while.

stephenw10

As you have found there are no development tools included in pfSense. To do so would be security risk and unnecessary bloat on a firewall.
If you want to compile anything for pfSense 2.0 you need to do it on a FreeBSD 8.1 box.
However there is already a FreeBSD package for Xymon client which you should be able to install with:

pkg_add -r xymon-client

Is it the wrong version?

Steve

Edit: It appears to be 4.2.3. However there is a more recent package available in the 'latest' repo. It may or may not install on pfSense, try it and see. It's 4.3.2:

pkg_add -r ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/packages/Latest/xymon-client.tbz

KiaN

I really dont know much about BSD, thank you :)