From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 6 14:11:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA22033 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 6 Jan 1996 14:11:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from beaver.cs.washington.edu (beaver.cs.washington.edu [128.95.1.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA22025 for ; Sat, 6 Jan 1996 14:11:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from tera.com (tera.com [128.95.3.1]) by beaver.cs.washington.edu (8.7.2/7.1be+) with SMTP id OAA29086; Sat, 6 Jan 1996 14:11:01 -0800 (PST) Received: by tera.com (4.1/SMI-4.0) id AA06446; Sat, 6 Jan 96 14:10:12 PST From: kline@tera.com (Gary Kline) Message-Id: <9601062210.AA06446@tera.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Date: Sat, 6 Jan 1996 14:10:12 -0800 (PST) Cc: 72110.765@compuserve.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Doug White" at Jan 6, 96 00:28:44 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk According to Doug White: > > On Fri, 5 Jan 1996, Gary Kline wrote: > [[ ... ]] > Odd. I've had the opposite experience. The only thing I've had trouble > with is TeX (which I'm now recompiling, and crossing my fingers). > Everything else has been `make', `su', `make install', `rehash' and run. > > > I've been porting for more years than I care to > > admit, and I'll finish up with the same environment > > as is on my old 386.... but am I doing something > > stupid? Is there some pre-config magic for FreeBSD > > hidden away somewhere?? Better to ask this now > > than wait until I've re-re-re-invented the wheel! > > I haven't a clue. You must have just picked the wrong ports, I guess :) > > Update: with elm, I selected the wrong default from the ./Configuration script. (Translation: read the code if you don't want to plow thru billions and billions of configurations Q's.) Hoping that other ports will be easier... gary kline >