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Error installing Port security/openvpn-auth-ldap on FreeBSD 9

Mon, 04 Nov 2013 18:21:02 -0300

On FreeBSD 9, the Port security/openvpn-auth-ldap is flagged as BROKEN because of the following error in the configure build step.

configure: WARNING: Check library not found. Unit tests will not be built or run.
checking for openvpn-plugin.h... no
configure: error: Could not locate a working openvpn source tree.
See `config.log' for more details.
===> Script "configure" failed unexpectedly.
Please report the problem to snb@FreeBSD.org [maintainer] and attach the
"/usr/ports/security/openvpn-auth-ldap/work/auth-ldap-2.0.3/config.log"
including the output of the failure of your make command. Also, it might be
a good idea to provide an overview of all packages installed on your system
(e.g. a /usr/sbin/pkg_info -Ea).
*** Error code 1

Looking at the config.log, we have:

configure:5511: checking for openvpn-plugin.h
configure:5544: cc -o conftest -O2 -pipe -DLDAP_DEPRECATED -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/ports/security/openvpn/work/openvpn-2.3.0 -export-dynamic conftest.c >&5
conftest.c:15:34: error: openvpn-plugin.h: No such file or directory

Other error that might happen:

checking how to run the Objective C preprocessor... /lib/cpp
configure: error: Objective C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

To fix this, a patch can be applied:

cd /usr/ports/security/openvpn-auth-ldap
wget https://mwclabs.net/pub/openvpn-auth-ldap.patch
patch -p0 < openvpn-auth-ldap.patch
make && make install

Error "tar: Unrecognized archive format" on FreeBSD 8.2

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:11:25 -0300

After trying to install a certain Port on FreeBSD 8.2, the following error was being reported:

tar: Unrecognized archive format

After a bit of digging, I found out the distributed version of bsdtar wasn’t recognizing xz compression between -7 and -9.

As a workaround, while not upgrading to FreeBSD 8.3, you can do the following:

Install the Port archivers/libarchive; and
Append the line below in the file /etc/make.conf:

TAR=/usr/local/bin/bsdtar

That being done, you now will be able to successfully install the failing Port.

More info.

UPDATE

If you are getting the error below while installing archivers/libarchive:

error: spawn.h: No such file or directory

You should try installing it with the following commands:

make clean
make ac_cv_header_spawn_h=no
make install

Reading and writing NTFS on FreeBSD

Tue, 25 May 2010 17:18:32 -0300

Mouting your NTFS device on write mode.

This will mount your HD on read-only mode:

mount -t nfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt

To be able to mount your NTFS and write, you will need NTFS-3G.

Install the port:

cd /usr/ports/sysutils/fusefs-ntfs

make install

Load the kernel module:

kldload /usr/local/modules/fuse.ko

Mount the desired device:

mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/da0s1 /mnt

Alternative mounting command:

ntfs-3g /dev/da0s1 /mnt