Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1998 20:47:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Tiemann <btman@ugcs.caltech.edu> To: Herbert Eiam <hereiam@tgn.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xmkmf or not 2 xmkmf, dot is the question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807262045330.4383-100000@lionking.org> In-Reply-To: <35BBEFB9.7A36@tgn.net>
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On Sun, 26 Jul 1998, Herbert Eiam wrote: > Help! :) What the heck are:xmkmf > > # cd pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/ports/net/ytalk/ > # ls > Makefile files patches pkg > # make > >> ytalk-v3pl2.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist on this system. > >> Attempting to fetch from ftp://knot.queensu.ca/pub/unix/software/. > Receiving ytalk-v3pl2.tar.gz (47987 bytes): 100% > 47987 bytes transfered in 1.0 seconds (44.89 kB/s) > >> Checksum OK for ytalk-v3pl2.tar.gz. > ===> Extracting for ytalk-3.0.2 > ===> Patching for ytalk-3.0.2 > ===> Applying FreeBSD patches for ytalk-3.0.2 > ===> Configuring for ytalk-3.0.2 > xmkmf: not found > *** Error code 1 A lot of the ports, like ytalk and ImageMagick and so on, require X11 libs/binaries in order to compile, even when we might only be interested in their command-line capabilities. You might have to install an X11 distribution in order to get it to compile, even if you never plan to run X. Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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