[Openswan Users] Issues installing and uninstalling 2.6.28

[Nick Howitt]

  I've reinstalled today and it has worked OK. I've no idea why it went 
wrong yesterday.

make uninstall still errors (but it does clear most of the files)

Nick

On 03/08/2010 22:05, Nick Howitt wrote:
>  Hi,
> For the last few releases I've been rolling my own rpm based on an old 
> src file I bumped into without knowing exactly what I'm doing, so this 
> time I decided to go back to the old make programs/make install method 
> and I've run into a couple of issues.
>
> My distro is ClearOS 5.2 (based on Centos 5.5) and instead of using 
> the usual /usr/local for its files it uses /usr. This never made any 
> difference to the compile in the past, but this time when I did it, 
> the compile worked and I could start ipsec (with service ipsec start), 
> but none of the ipsec commands (ipsec auto etc) worked because there 
> was no path to the program. This used to work.
>
> Rather than modify the path, I decided to uninstall and use the old 
> instructions sticking with the ClearOS standard file locations (change 
> “INC_USRLOCAL=/usr/local” to “INC_USRLOCAL=/usr” in Makefile.inc). 
> This time, before changing Makefile.inc, "make uninstall" failed with:
>
> make uninstall
> make --no-print-directory install_file_list | egrep -v 
> '(/ipsec.conf$|/ipsec.d/)' | xargs rm -f
> make[4]: *** No rule to make target `install_file_list'. Stop.
> make[3]: *** [install_file_list] Error 1
> make[2]: *** [install_file_list] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [install_file_list] Error 1
>
> Again I'm sure this worked in the past.
>
> Making the mod to Makefile.inc worked as expected and all the ipsec 
> commands worked as the correct path was there.
>
> To sum up:
> 1 - Installing no longer appears to set the correct PATH
> 2 - "make uninstall" fails
>
> Regards,
>
> Nick