Building Applications from Source: "no rule to make target ..."

[Kapil Renninger]

Hello,
I am trying to follow along with the CompTIA Linux+ (XK0-005) and I am getting stuck on "Building Applications from Source," lesson. I have downloaded the tar from the website and successfully extracted it. The instructor then says I can type "make" just to list the files specific to each architecture but that returns nothing. However, running

steelcoyote@coyote-ubuntu-vm:~/john-1.9.0-jumbo-1/src$ uname -a
Linux coyote-ubuntu-vm 6.2.0-34-generic #34~22.04.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Sep  7 13:12:03 UTC 2 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

So I know my architecture is x86-64. and I see it listed in the list of files. So then I try:

steelcoyote@coyote-ubuntu-vm:~/john-1.9.0-jumbo-1/src$ make clean linux-x86-64
make: *** No rule to make target 'clean'.  Stop.

So i'm searching on my own but I figured I'd reach out here and ask as well.

[Ronnie Wong]

@Kapil-Renninger,
In the /~/john-1.9.0-jumbo-1/src please verify that Makefile is listed there by running ls. With it showing nothing it makes me wonder if there is something that is different when you typed make.
The only thing I see that is different from your line and Don's is that you have the john-1.9.0-jumbo-1 and Don's terminal shows john 1.9.0

[Kapil Renninger]

@Ronnie-Wong

Thanks for the response. Yeah I downloaded the jumbo version. THe insturctor said it was just a larger database. I'll retry with the other version since I'm having trouble with this.

Make file was indeed in the list but you actually have to run a slightly different command.

So these are the make files listed. The only one I can run is Makefile.legacy by typing

make -f Makefile.legacy

But of course it says legacy is unsupported. And I run into a problem trying to run it. It then says op

In file included from md5crypt_long_fmt.c:24:
md5.h:25:10: fatal error: openssl/md5.h: No such file or directory
   25 | #include <openssl/md5.h>
      |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
make[1]: *** [Makefile.legacy:1984: md5crypt_long_fmt.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/steelcoyote/john-1.9.0-jumbo-1/src'
make: *** [Makefile.legacy:442: linux-x86-64] Error 2

But I checked and openssl is installed.

Like I said I'll try again with the the regular file since I figured out how to run the code. I just figured I'd post this follow up for anyone else trying to figure out why "make" won't run.

[Kapil Renninger]

Update. Downloading and building for the regular source works as intended. I do not understand why the "jumbo" is different.

[Ronnie Wong]

@Kapil-Renninger,
This to me is the frustration with Linux things...It's great until things like this. :)