From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 19 07:19:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA27688 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 07:19:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.EUnet.hu (mail.eunet.hu [193.225.28.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA27671 for ; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 07:19:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail.EUnet.hu, id QAA29475; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 16:19:41 +0200 Received: by CoDe.CoDe.hu (PAA00801); Fri, 19 Jul 1996 15:38:45 GMT From: Gabor Zahemszky Message-Id: <199607191538.PAA00801@CoDe.CoDe.hu> Subject: Re: Installing x11 ports To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 15:38:44 +0000 (GMT) Cc: meltedice@kuentos.guam.net In-Reply-To: from "Meltedice" at Jul 19, 96 08:53:49 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > Whenever I try to install any x11 ports from and IDE CD-ROM I have not > been successful. I get an error saying that xmkmf could not be found. I > have mounted the CD-ROM, and run "make install" and "make" in the desired > ports directory as root. I know that xmkmf is installed in /usr/X11R6/bin. What > do I need to hack so that xmkmf is found and utilized? Is /usr/X11R6/bin in your PATH? (I've found that root hasn't in my machine.) sh/ksh/bash: PATH=$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin ; export PATH csh/tcsh: set path = ( $path /usr/X11R6/bin ) -- Gabor Zahemszky -:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:- Earth is the cradle of human sense, but you can't stay in the cradle forever. Tsiolkovsky