Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 13:10:09 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: karl@Mcs.Net (Karl Denninger) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, karl@Mcs.Net, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Building ports and packages? Message-ID: <199608120340.NAA13913@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199608120313.WAA09821@Jupiter.mcs.net> from "Karl Denninger" at Aug 11, 96 10:13:12 pm
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Karl Denninger stands accused of saying: > > > Is the -current system you're working with a -SNAP virgin install, or > > did you upgrade over an older (2.0.5, 2.1 etc.) release? > > Its a virgin install off a RELEASE I built from -CURRENT. Nothing special > about it. Can you be more specific about exactly what fails when you try building stuff? Are you getting makefile breakdown, checksum failures, or compile failures? Which /usr/share/mk/bsd.port.mk do you have? Latest is $Id: bsd.port.mk,v 1.218 1996/08/07 08:25:08 asami Exp $ $Id: bsd.port.subdir.mk,v 1.14 1996/04/09 22:54:13 wosch Exp $ > > Is there a pattern to these failures? Satoshi (ports-meister) builds them > > on -current regularly as a verification. From whence are you supping them? > > One thing I have figured out -- I didn't have X11 on there, and that blows > up anything X related. Can that be fixed without reinstalling the entire > machine? (ie: can I load the X11 release?) Yup. You can either bring up sysinstall and just install the X11 stuff (custom/distributions/custom/XFree86, point it at an FTP server with the XFree dists on it), or you can just unpack the relevant tarballs by hand; they're all rooted at /usr, and described in the docco that comes with them from the XFree people. > Karl Denninger (karl@MCS.Net)| MCSNet - The Finest Internet Connectivity -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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