Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 17:36:31 +0100 (MEZ) From: "Hr.Ladavac" <lada@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> To: alwan@rma.edu (Michael Alwan) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fvwm95 port; xpm port make problems Message-ID: <199702241636.AA095332191@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970224083603.00687a0c@rma.edu> from "Michael Alwan" at Feb 24, 97 08:36:03 am
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E-mail message from Michael Alwan contained: > To all: > > Got the port skeleton for fvwm95; ran make, install; ftp'd to freebsd.org > for dist; then the process hung when it didn't find the xpm directory on my > machine. > > Got the xpm port; ran make install; ftp'd to freebsd.org for dist; then the > process hung on "can't find xmkmf." > > Since I had the distribution, I cd to /usr/ports/graphics/xpm where I found > the files partly installed. In the xpm directory, ran make install; the > process hung with the same error: "can't find xmkmf." > > I tried piping the output of make install to xmkmf like so: > > make install | /usr/X11R6/bin/xmkmf > > This is what happens: 1) the Makefile is renamed Makefile.bak 2) some > compilation begins 3) the process hangs with the message "can't find imake." > > I'm new at FreeBSD and ports, so there may be just a little tweak needed to > a patch or makefile to get this to work. I looked around but saw nothing > obvious. Any ideas? Do you have /usr/X11R6/bin in the PATH of the user doing the compilation? /Marino > > Michael Alwan >
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