From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Jul 5 10: 7: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5641514DB6 for ; Mon, 5 Jul 1999 10:06:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sprice@hiwaay.net) Received: from localhost (sprice@localhost) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA10204; Mon, 5 Jul 1999 12:06:45 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 12:06:45 -0500 (CDT) From: Steve Price To: Stan Brown Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Broken ports In-Reply-To: <19990705164825.96A0D15020@hub.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [redirected to the -ports mailing list] On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Stan Brown wrote: # xscrabble is marked as broke because of the tar file. While the tar # file on the original site has been wrong for some perios of time, the # last time I simply grabed it from teh FreeBSD site by hand, and it # built liek a charm. BTW the difference is probably a fix for 4 players # that was pushed back upstream from the HP porting cneter. Comment out the MASTER_SITES entry in the port's Makefile and fetch it from ftp.freebsd.org. Or you can set MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE in your environment. See ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk for details on the latter. # xgrab ws marked as broken, ecause of needing to run xrdb. Huh, what;s # wrong with runing xrdb? Is anyone aware of a screen printign program # that works from the ports colection other than this one? DISPLAY=your_machine:0.0 make install # How can I overide the "broken" flag, and try to build xscrabble? It is usually broken for a reason, but you can override this flag by building a port with. NO_IGNORE=yes make install -steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message