"don't know how to make" libsmutil.a

[Derek Ragona]

You may need to cvsup again, as you may have done it before the makefile 
for sendmail was properly updated.

Or, you can download and build sendmail from source.

         -Derek


At 03:10 PM 6/18/2006, nthwaver at gmail.com wrote:
>I've been trying to follow these directions for setting up a secure
>mailserver: http://www.puresimplicity.net/~hemi/freebsd/sendmail.html
>
>Step 4 under "Sendmail setup" has given me continuous problems, mostly
>ending with this error:
>
>   make: don't know how to make
>/usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/../../lib/libsmutil/libsmutil.a. Stop
>
>As suggested in this thread, I tried first updating the source tree
>with cvsup and typed "make buildworld" in /usr/src:
>http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-May/086150.html
>
>However, after running for an hour or two, "make buildworld" exited
>with an error code, with the same message!
>
>   make: don't know how to make
>/usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/../../lib/libsmutil/libsmutil.a. Stop
>
>I am using FreeBSD 6.0-release, and updated with the RELENG_6_0.  This
>system has been installed since around March and before today I've
>only updated the ports tree.  This was my first attempt to update the
>source.  Have I missed any steps that have caused these errors?
>Thanks.
>
>- Jordan
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