Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 20:14:53 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: trout@net66.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: using make install Message-ID: <19990120201453.V4646@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990120033817.00914630@net66.com>; from trout@net66.com on Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 03:38:17AM -0600 References: <3.0.5.32.19990120033817.00914630@net66.com>
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On Wednesday, 20 January 1999 at 3:38:17 -0600, trout@net66.com wrote: > > howdy: > > last night i decided to install a few of the billion or so ports that are > on the cd release of freebsd 3.0. i tried to install emacs20, so i entered > > make install emacs20 > > it started installing, and it went on for a little while, then stopped with > this: > > ===>Registering installation for emacs-20.3 > make: don't know how to make emacs20. Stop It looks as if you have said too much. The correct command is: # make install The target 'emacs-20.3' is not appropriate, and this is make's way of telling you so. Are you sure it's not already installed? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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