Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 15:59:05 +0100 From: "Didier Wiroth" <didier.wiroth@mcesr.etat.lu> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: learning to compile and installing sources without using the ports collection Message-ID: <000001c2bca6$a63ace60$952b6e94@lucifer>
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Hey, Hi, I'm using xfce 3.8.18 (from ports collection). I download the sources of xfce4 from cvs and wanted to compile the stuff! Like they mentionned it: ./configure than make (but I get an error message)! I'm using FreeBSD 4.7-release Well honestly I'm a *NIX newbie (coming from Windows) and I'm not a programmer! I would "really like to learn" how to download sources and compile and install stuff by myself (without using the ports collections)! I do understand that I might leave my Freebsd system unstable or even unusable after installing Software! I would like to be able not to be "only" dependant of the ports-collection, to do that, you need to be able to compile stuff correctly but I need some help or doc? Where can I start? I had a quick look at the porters-handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/index.html Is that ports-handbook the place to start? Isn't it meant for a programmer? May be someone has some tips about how to compile and install the xfce4 modules on freebsd 4.7-RELEASE, what do I have to take care? What should you watch or pay attention when compiling etc... What are the concret difficulties? Do you have recommendations about a good doc for non-programmers about how to learn how to do that? Any good link where I could start? Do you really have to be a programmer to be able to do that? Is it mission impossible for someone without programmer knowledge? Many many thanks for any kind of hints/help link etc...! Didier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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