[Box Backup] Make/install help

Ben Summers boxbackup@fluffy.co.uk
Wed, 3 Aug 2005 09:45:58 +0100


On 3 Aug 2005, at 02:57, captaink@quickbackups.com wrote:

> I'm fairly new to linux, and I'm trying to make/install boxbackup.
>
> I've downloaded the tarball, and extracted it to /usr/local/src/ 
> boxbackup
>
> I did ./configure, with no errors.
>
> But when I try make, I get the following:
>
> - A lot of warnings about using private kernel header <endian.h>  
> instead
> of /usr/include/asm/byteorder.h

This is because Linux helpfully doesn't include useful things like  
endian-independent byte ordering macros in the files you're supposed  
to include.

> - lots of struct IOStream errors in protocol.cpp and .h
>
> What am I doing wrong? Thanks,

You need to post the latter error, otherwise it's impossible to tell  
what's going on.

Ben