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Date:      Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:43:32 +0100
From:      RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>
To:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: make install and portinstall
Message-ID:  <20130429194332.2cb50589@gumby.homeunix.com>
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On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:06:58 +0300
Alexey_Kurinnij wrote:


> > Well, the first thing is that you should try asking your question
> > on the freebsd-ports@ mailing list.  This is exactly the sort of
> > thing that mailing list exists for.
> >
> > I suspect that the problem is you've chosen an unfortunate
> > combination of options which produces a broken result -- there are
> > too many different combinations to test them all, so this sort of
> > error can creep in occasionally.  In any case, it would help if you
> > could show your options choices for the xorg port and other ports
> > in the dependency tree where you didn't take the defaults (make
> > showconfig in those ports will show you that).
> >
> > 	Cheers,
> >
> > 	Matthew
> >
> Thanks for reply. Yesterday on forum I received advice use svn
> against portsnap, 

That won't make any difference to you problem.

The major difference between make install and portinstall is that the
latter brings dependencies up to date before installing the new
port[s]. That may account for the difference.



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