bind9 (9.18.14) build / install on macOS Ventura (13.3.1) fails to create dirs or files as expected

[Ondřej Surý]

I would like to re-iterate what Greg said here - use the Homebrew package.

Using the Homebrew hides some gory details about the system administrators
and could be a good entry to learn how the system administration works.

Otherwise, you need to look at the output that the build process produced,
running `make install V=1` will give you little bit more detail about the process.

Uploading config.log and providing link to it also help to give us more information,
so we can help you.

Ondrej
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> On 9. 5. 2023, at 22:57, Greg Choules via bind-users <bind-users at lists.isc.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello.
> By far the simplest way to install BIND natively on Mac is to use the Homebrew package manager. I have 9.18.14 installed on mine and it works fine.
> The other alternative is to run it from the Docker image. See here for details: https://hub.docker.com/r/internetsystemsconsortium/bind9
> 
> Hope that helps.
> Greg
> 
> On Tue, 9 May 2023 at 21:43, Pacific <info at pacific-holding.com> wrote:
> Installing bind9 (9.18.14) on macOS Ventura (13.3.1) — install is not creating a namedb directory nor can I find a boilerplate named.conf. 
> Steps taken:
> Downloaded tar directly from isc, saved to a local directory as a user with admin privs.
> Steps to build:
> tar xzf bind-9.18.14.tar.gz
> cd bind-9.18.14
> ./configure
> 
> 
> Config summary reads:
> =====================
> Configuration summary:
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> Optional features enabled:
> Memory allocator: jemalloc
> GSS-API (--with-gssapi)
> DNSSEC validation active by default (--enable-auto-validation)
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> Features disabled or unavailable on this platform:
> Small-system tuning (--with-tuning)
> Allow 'dnstap' packet logging (--enable-dnstap)
> GeoIP2 access control (--enable-geoip)
> DNS Response Policy Service interface (--enable-dnsrps)
> Allow 'fixed' rrset-order (--enable-fixed-rrset)
> Very verbose query trace logging (--enable-querytrace)
> Single-query trace logging (--enable-singletrace)
> LMDB database to store configuration for 'addzone' zones (--with-lmdb)
> IDN support (--with-libidn2)
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> Configured paths:
> prefix: /usr/local
> sysconfdir: ${prefix}/etc
> localstatedir: ${prefix}/var
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Compiler: gcc
> Apple clang version 14.0.3 (clang-1403.0.22.14.1)
> Target: arm64-apple-darwin22.4.0
> Thread model: posix
> InstalledDir: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin
> CFLAGS: -Wall -Wextra -Wwrite-strings -Wpointer-arith -Wno-missing-field-initializers -Wformat -Wshadow -Werror=implicit-function-declaration -Werror=missing-prototypes -Werror=format-security -Werror=parentheses -Werror=implicit -Werror=strict-prototypes -Werror=vla -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -fdiagnostics-show-option -g -O2 -pthread -Wno-deprecated-declarations
> CPPFLAGS: -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -I/opt/homebrew/opt/openssl at 3/include
> LDFLAGS: -L/opt/homebrew/opt/openssl at 3/lib
> —————————————————————————————
> After configure completes:
> make
> When make successfully completes, ran test suite:
> sudo ./bin/tests/system/ifconfig.sh up 
> make test
> Tests run clean, bring down interface and do make install which runs to completion:
> sudo ./bin/tests/system/ifconfig.sh down
> sudo make install
> Install appears to complete successfully, however there is no namedb directory in either /etc or /usr/local/etc
> In fact there is no named.conf file anywhere on the system except in the source tree.
> Please advise as to where to look or please advise if there are additional build steps to take, if configure needs edits, etc.
> Thanks for any assistance.
> 
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