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Date:      Sun, 9 Jun 2002 12:36:58 +1200
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
To:        Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Installing XFree86 from source?
Message-ID:  <20020609123658.A18561@grimoire.chen.org.nz>
In-Reply-To: <20020608165057.M502-100000@66-75-1-142.san.rr.com>; from Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com on Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 04:54:41PM -0700
References:  <20020608165057.M502-100000@66-75-1-142.san.rr.com>

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On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 04:54:41PM -0700, Peter Leftwich wrote:
> Okay, the saga continues . . . after doing a "rm -rf" on both my /etc/X11
> and /usr/X11R6 directories, I went to www.xfree86.org and downloaded:
> 
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  25961532 Jun  6 22:59:21 2002 X420src-1.tgz
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  23227328 Jun  6 22:59:34 2002 X420src-2.tgz
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel   9306679 Jun  6 22:58:37 2002 X420src-3.tgz
> 
> Later, when all three were gunzipped and untarred, I had a dir called:
> 
> drwxr-xr-x  11 root  wheel       512 Jun  7 22:52:23 2002 xc
> 
> I am wary of just changing to that directory and typing "make all" or "make
> World" because, well, I don't know what I am doing.  So here is my limited
> first question.  How do I make sure the "make" knows about my OS?? Thanks,

Put the files tgz files you've downloaded in /usr/ports/distfiles/xc,
and then:

    # cd /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4
    # make
    # make install
    # make clean

-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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