From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 15 10:13:45 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37ACB37B401 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 10:13:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailout05.sul.t-online.com (mailout05.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7BC343F65 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 10:13:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from 520023893678-0001@t-online.de) Received: from fwd08.sul.t-online.de by mailout05.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 18Ys2o-0004Gp-04; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 19:13:42 +0100 Received: from pD950C7FB.dip.t-dialin.net (520023893678-0001@[217.80.199.251]) by fwd08.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 18Ys2a-1owQQSC; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 19:13:28 +0100 Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 19:13:09 +0000 (GMT) From: 520023893678-0001@t-online.de (P. U. Kruppa) To: Didier Wiroth Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: learning to compile and installing sources without using the ports collection In-Reply-To: <000001c2bca6$a63ace60$952b6e94@lucifer> Message-ID: <20030115185923.D3053-100000@small.pukruppa.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Sender: 520023893678-0001@t-dialin.net 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 Hi Didier, I think there are too many questions in this email. On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Didier Wiroth wrote: 1) > 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 You should post the end of make's output to this list and put up a meaningful subject line like xfce: make fails with .... 2) > 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)! Start with something simple like the console browser lynx, or the console mail client pine. Most graphical applications are pretty difficult to compile. 3) > I do understand that I might leave my Freebsd system unstable or even > unusable after installing Software! Normally you won't. You always have backdoors like logging in from a differrent terminal and killing processes. 4) > 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? On the applicaton's homepage. Regards, Uli. *-----------------------------------* * Peter Ulrich Kruppa * * - Wuppertal - * * Germany * *-----------------------------------* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message