From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 3 19:53:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from infinity.aesredfish.net (ns1.aesredfish.net [65.168.0.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46CCA37B404 for ; Mon, 3 Jun 2002 19:53:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from potentialtech.com (mhope-dhcp-65-168-1-181.dashfast.com [65.168.1.181]) by infinity.aesredfish.net (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g542qjU24682; Mon, 3 Jun 2002 22:52:45 -0400 Message-ID: <3CFC2CD8.1060506@potentialtech.com> Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 22:58:32 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020502 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Vinod Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installing binaries References: <20020603203303.59699.qmail@web21101.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Vinod wrote: > how are binaries installed from a source file a.bin?i > cant see something like a makefile > Thanks in advance, > Vinod If you're talking about the "self-extracting" binaries that some proprietary software uses, the short answer is to make the file exectuable, and execute it. The shorter answer is to read the install docs and follow them. If you're talking about something else, you may want to elaborate a bit more. -- Bill Moran Potential Technology http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message