Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 21:14:12 +0000 From: Richard Morte <ric@sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk> To: nsayer@kfu.com Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Installing GDBM_File (was: Location of GDBM_File in FreeBSD 3.2_Release) Message-ID: <382F2624.4AFE13B6@sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk> References: <38284AF0.8DA6F7E1@quack.kfu.com> <3828AD73.5F6989BE@sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk> <3828F1D4.B0141730@quack.kfu.com> <38291AA7.CEA2FBE9@sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk> <38297620.8C689922@quack.kfu.com> <382A04A1.F4C338F2@sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk> <382A1C05.BABCD8DC@sftw.com>
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Hi, This isn't addressed specifically to Nick Sayer - if anyone can give me a hint what to do next I should be able (hopefully) to complete this install within the next hour or two. I had problems installing gdbm-1.7.3. Nick suggested the following: > > pkg_delete gdbm-1.7.3 and fetch and install the latest > gdbm port, which will instal 1.8.0, which will give you > /usr/local/lib/libgdbm.so.2 > I located the whereabouts of gdbm-1.8.0 on the ports tree by doing a search on FreeBSD.org $ fetch ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/gdbm-1.8.0.tar.gz I got the message that I wasn't logged in. Anyway I found the following worked OK: $ fetch ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/GNU/gdbm/gdbm-1.8.0.tar.gz messages about 134080 bytes transferred etc... I untarred it with: $ tar xzf gdbm-1.8.0.tar.gz I noticed that the permissions for the newly created gdbm-1.8.0 directory were different from others in /usr/ports/databases directory (no idea why or even if this is significant) so I changed the permissions to 0755. $ cd gdbm-1.8.0 $ make install (did this with gdbm-.1.7.3, so did this again for ~1.8.0) make: don't know how to make install. Stop so I tried : $ make (from Greg Lehey's Book, 2nd Edition, pg 96 - Building the port) make: no target to make. $ I'm beginning to think I'm utterly useless at ports. Haven't got one to work correctly yet. What did I do wrong this time? Cheers, Ric To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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