From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 4 14:20:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA11145 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 4 Feb 1996 14:20:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from wakko.gil.net (keithl@wakko.gil.net [205.138.35.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA11138 for ; Sun, 4 Feb 1996 14:20:27 -0800 (PST) Received: (from keithl@localhost) by wakko.gil.net (8.6.12/8.6.9) id RAA03795; Sun, 4 Feb 1996 17:20:06 -0500 Date: Sun, 4 Feb 1996 17:20:05 -0500 (EST) From: Keith Leonard To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Ports?? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Howdy, It seems that every time I want to get something from the port collection (ok not everytime - I have gotten 1 port to work) the 'make' or 'make install' bombs because of some file missing (usually in the X directories). My original installation was the Kern Developers package from the install menu. Every time it bombs I try to trace down the missing files and copy them from the 'live' disk (enmass from the missing subdirectory). But it just doesn't seem to help - the process bombs somewhere else. The ports I have been trying to get are: emacs - why do I need X to run this? apsfilter - ok X for ghostscript ,for fonts ,for ...... ghostscript - ? Xfree86 (maybe not the name but you know what I mean) I have copied over the entire X11 subdirectory and any files that the errors mention (too numereous to enumerate - so don't give me any hassle) This is getting tedious to say the least. Do I just need to wipe the whole thing clean (with 2 months of work) and reinstall the second option - Xfree + all source??? My HD is filling up with files I don't want and space is getting cramped. I would just like a nice stable system to do some basic text processing not an X environment. The only port I've been sucessful at is 'joe' - Everything else seems to need X. WHY? Keith keithl@gil.net