From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 6 12:44:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7126814CE7 for ; Sat, 6 Nov 1999 12:44:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA32898; Sat, 6 Nov 1999 15:46:22 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199911062046.PAA32898@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: building gnome In-Reply-To: <13D5F9EDFD72D211BC3100105A1C2233054964@akira.lanfear.com> from Marc Wandschneider at "Nov 6, 1999 12:15:31 pm" To: MarcW@Lanfear.com (Marc Wandschneider) Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1999 15:46:22 -0500 (EST) Cc: jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ('Jonathon McKitrick'), brett@peloton.runet.edu (Brett Taylor), freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Marc Wandschneider wrote, > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Jonathon McKitrick [mailto:jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org] > > Subject: Re: building gnome > > > > > > On Sat, 6 Nov 1999, Brett Taylor wrote: > > > > > >Are you using the gnome port here? Did you install the X > > libraries when > > >you installed X? We need more info. > > Hmmm... maybe not. I know i did a custom install, and i only > > installed > > the Xserver i needed. Maybe i forgot the libraries. I'll > > have to check. > > Is there any easy way to do that from sysinstall? Or is it a pain? > > i'd love to see what experiences people are having building > gnome. > > I did a full install of XFree86, and put it in /usr/local/X11R6. If you install X from sysinstall or from the ports, it is by default put in /usr/X11R6, NOT /usr/local/X11R6. If you want to keep it where it is, change the 'X11BASE' variable in /etc/make.conf apropriately. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message