From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 28 14:08:37 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53286106564A for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 14:08:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from icemaca@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bk0-f54.google.com (mail-bk0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF6BF8FC19 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 14:08:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkcjc3 with SMTP id jc3so1268178bkc.13 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 07:08:35 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=UcFYXoZ/Cg4xdFjuwe5l+98d9eAk+2ECUslEG7qRmzQ=; b=VhljeYHlvqDED8aYe4ooH4+sdM/xEtEdwaPzTi04ZZ0S5CzqQxGEJaEBAJmazPuwD1 6UEWJsQJSKq3pSWpi37FABhn7JZWKmPhNiCdGV+YndI0AjLZQ7ovNIIAMaZGx8hShyLA j6+kUPMEdC0gqD9D7MQQAAjWoz64Iq0+jcXTAj8ngs3HJCGZ6wOsoxmTe+knZTTh0B11 Estm7TzttqC8a5IH/9XK+hSzgJ/j6lP8mugk8YHSPm/ukBQ3EeJUwO6xY7KYa/By4siq M4sXVS52EkTuyXNkDTp319MI4Dlj8mRBf6zrAr4FC+HuKoXV9YVbGYay/PP6vtFf6+fh yuYQ== Received: by 10.204.156.216 with SMTP id y24mr12083834bkw.60.1332943715463; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 07:08:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.102] ([85.232.210.115]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id zx16sm6806405bkb.13.2012.03.28.07.08.33 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 28 Mar 2012 07:08:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4F731B60.7020207@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:08:32 +0200 From: icemac User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111228 Thunderbird/9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: need info builing ports properly X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 14:08:37 -0000 Hi, I am fairly new to fbsd and not a linux user, just windows and osx. My first install was version 7.1 for a short while and had 7.2, but only just came back to it with 9.0-r (amd64). I have a bit of an issue with the port system and was hoping to get some basic info as to what i might be doing wrong or missing before i go mess up my install. Basically, i know the basics of installing, maintaining ports, etc, but I seem to always end up with a rather flakey system, apps not running properly and so on. The one time I was really happy with my system is when i had tinderbox set up (on ver 7.x) and built everything in there, but was still using the same make.conf options in there as my /etc/make.conf I only ever had this option set CFLAGS= -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe and have tried without anything in /etc/make.conf ( apart from perl version entry from the port). So far i have never concerned myself while ldconfig or related stuff, as i am green on that, and have always had either default or whatever gets updated automatically. Would that be an issue, or my only issue? is there something else i need to set up properly on my system, or are my fingers just too big for my keyboard? At the moment i have 9.0-r installed, using packages only, with un-updated ports (so i can delete/add packages with portupgrade -PP and have no version issues), then i have tinderbox set up again, with latest ports tree (csup'ed last night) and plan to rebuild all the packages i'm using, but i don't want to have to avoid straight "make install clean" for every small thing later. Can someone give me some direction? I am still learning to use fbsd, and starting C, so i dont mind reading/testing. I dont mind running "pkg_delete -fav" every other day either atm. Thanks in advance