From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 21 11:42:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from megamail.megared.net.mx (megamail.megared.com.mx [207.249.162.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2A26E1558A for ; Wed, 21 Jul 1999 11:42:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ales@megared.net.mx) Received: from [207.249.163.252] by megamail.megared.net.mx (NTMail 3.03.0017/4c.ab3r) with ESMTP id za435265 for ; Wed, 21 Jul 1999 13:39:48 -0500 Message-ID: <02e501bed3a8$703a7bc0$fca3f9cf@megared.net.mx> From: "Alejandro Ramirez" To: "James Gill" , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" References: Subject: RE: #make problem Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 13:39:59 -0500 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, You will have to install the ports tree, dont worry about disk space, it will only create a directory structure, with the names of the programs that you can install, and also it will grab the patches for the programs to work well on FreeBSD, and then, you will have to mount your cdroom (the one with the tar files in it) in /usr/ports/distfiles, and then: cd /usr/ports/net/bind8 make make install and you are done. Ales ----- Original Message ----- From: James Gill To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 1999 1:28 PM Subject: #make problem > > On a brand new system, minimal install, custom kernel of 3.2-RELEASE i'm > trying to install Bind, it's my first port install so be patient ;) > > i've FTP'd the port from ftp.freebsd.org ('cause I can't figure out how to > FTP it from my CD) following the guidelines in the handbook and everything > works beautifully until... > > # make install > "/usr/share/mk/bsd.port.mk", line 2: Could not find > /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk > make: fatal errors encountered cannot continue > # _ > > so i'm stuck ... what gives with make? do i have to install a port of that? > (is that a chickenegg situation?) > > ...and where can i find a port of the fortune program? :) > > tia > > ===================================== > James Gill * http://www.topsecret.net > ===================================== > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message