[Openswan Users] Issues installing and uninstalling 2.6.28

[Paul Wouters]

On Wed, 4 Aug 2010, Nick Howitt wrote:

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

Likely you did:

make install
[edit Makefile.inc or changed env variabls to point to a different DEST* location)
make uninstall

Paul

> 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
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