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Old July 30th, 2012, 12:00
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Default monsterwm won't compile (something with cflags)
When I run "make" I get this error:
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make: don't know how to make cflags. Stop
I've only edited the Makefile's PREFIX to "/usr" instead of "/usr/local" so all relevant files should be here:

https://github.com/c00kiemon5ter/monsterwm

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Old July 30th, 2012, 13:04
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Old July 30th, 2012, 13:37
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I'm guessing you used gmake(1) instead of make(1)?
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Yes, I didn't know that FreeBSD had a different "make" than GNU/Linux.
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It actually doesn't work on me. I edited that too, but still the same errors. Isn't it true that source code for GNU/Linux won't compile on *BSD?
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It usually does assuming tools like devel/autoconf etc are used properly and the source code is of such nature that it doesn't make assumptions about the system. Source code that depends on the internals of the operating system is very rarely portable to other systems though.
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Try compiling with default settings, and see if it works. Then try adding more and more of your own settings to get to the root of the problem. Also, make sure your ports tree is up to date.

Usually, you shouldn't play with CFLAGS too much, since they're pretty well configured for each port. Any changes you make there will work for some packages but not for all in general, so you'd have to switch back and in some cases and recompile them again along with all dependencies, which makes it annoying in time.

There is also actually a pretty good reason, why you should keep stuff in /usr/local/ ... the thing is that /usr/ holds some parts of the base system. When you're upgrading your FreeBSD "world" and issue # make installworld, it may do some funny things to your installed packages there, but keeping things separate ensures your packages and their config files (yup ... /usr/local/etc/) remain intact throughout the whole procedure. Which is awesome (obviously!)
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