From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 19 2:42: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1037437B479 for ; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 02:42:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 2607 invoked by uid 100); 19 Nov 2000 10:42:03 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14871.44667.137101.473405@guru.mired.org> Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 04:42:03 -0600 (CST) To: Bill Bumgarner Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: port problems on clean install In-Reply-To: <52574@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bill Bumgarner types: > Am I correct in assuming that one should be abel to cd into any of the > ports in /usr/ports/ after a clean install from a 4.11 cd, type "make > install" and it should "just work"? And it usually does. > It definitely isn't on my system. When checking to see whether the > build environment is sane, it complains that "newly created file is > older than system file". That's not enough information. How about the last bit of the output of the make command? Or all of it, if it isn't very long. > The date/time on the system is correct-- though, looking more closely, > it appears that it is not taking into account daylight savings time? > Actually, there doesn't appear to be any option anywhere for either > setting daylight savings time OR setting the computers clock during > setup. This *really* should be a part of the setup as it can grossly > impact a system's usability if the clock is wrong. It is part of the system installation process - you're just not forced to do it. Run /stand/sysinstall, hit the c key, enter, then down arrow until you get to time zone and hit enter again. That will walk you through setting the time zone.