From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 26 20:47:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA00277 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 26 Jul 1998 20:47:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lionking.org (btman@blacker-99.caltech.edu [131.215.86.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA00262 for ; Sun, 26 Jul 1998 20:47:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from btman@ugcs.caltech.edu) Received: from localhost (btman@localhost) by lionking.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id UAA25131; Sun, 26 Jul 1998 20:47:20 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: lionking.org: btman owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1998 20:47:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Tiemann X-Sender: btman@lionking.org To: Herbert Eiam cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xmkmf or not 2 xmkmf, dot is the question In-Reply-To: <35BBEFB9.7A36@tgn.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 26 Jul 1998, Herbert Eiam wrote: > Help! :) What the heck are:xmkmf > > # cd pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/ports/net/ytalk/ > # ls > Makefile files patches pkg > # make > >> ytalk-v3pl2.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist on this system. > >> Attempting to fetch from ftp://knot.queensu.ca/pub/unix/software/. > Receiving ytalk-v3pl2.tar.gz (47987 bytes): 100% > 47987 bytes transfered in 1.0 seconds (44.89 kB/s) > >> Checksum OK for ytalk-v3pl2.tar.gz. > ===> Extracting for ytalk-3.0.2 > ===> Patching for ytalk-3.0.2 > ===> Applying FreeBSD patches for ytalk-3.0.2 > ===> Configuring for ytalk-3.0.2 > xmkmf: not found > *** Error code 1 A lot of the ports, like ytalk and ImageMagick and so on, require X11 libs/binaries in order to compile, even when we might only be interested in their command-line capabilities. You might have to install an X11 distribution in order to get it to compile, even if you never plan to run X. Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message