Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 19:25:42 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: David Syphers <dsyphers@igpp.llnl.gov> Cc: brian@Awfulhak.org, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86 Message-ID: <199808291825.TAA02221@awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 28 Aug 1998 10:05:29 PDT." <199808281705.KAA03228@beowulf.llnl.gov>
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Hi, When you ``make'' a port, it first looks in /usr/ports/distfiles/ for the distribution archive(s). In the XFree86 case, it looks in /usr/ports/distfiles/xc (just to confuse things...). If it doesn't find the archive there, it'll try to download it. This is done by first looking in the MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE variable (You can ``make MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE=/some/place/that/i/like/''), then in /cdrom/distfiles, then it tries to get the archive from the 'net. So, /usr/ports/distfiles/xc is the magic directory in your case :-) The ``make configure'' will unpack and patch the source archives. The `tar' and edit mentioned on my web site does the ``add support for NeoMagic'' bit, and the ``make install'' does the rest. Drop me a line if you have more problems. Cheers. > On 26 Aug, Brian Somers wrote: > > Take a look at http://www.Awfulhak.org/software.html. > > > > It's got a neomagic driver and instructions for integrating it into > > the XFree86-3.3.2 port. > > Okay, sorry for bothering you again, but I need some help. All the > directions for everything on the ports collection assume that the > person has internet access with FreeBSD. This is not the case with me. > I have FreeBSD on my laptop, which is not connected to the internet, > so I need to know how to do everything holding in mind that I am > connected to the internet with WinNT and use a Zip drive to transfer > files over to my laptop. > > Am I supposed to install the neomagic driver as I'm installing X, or > afterwards? When I tried "make configure" in /usr/ports/x11/XFree86, > it gave me the error message that it couldn't find X332src-1.tgz. Then > it tried to download it using ftp, which, of course, failed. So I went > to one of the ftp sites (ftp.xfree86.org) and downloaded X332src-1.tgz, > along with everything else in the /source directory. I then put these > files in /usr/ports/x11/XFree86 and tried "make configure again." No > luck. I got the same error message. What's going on? > > BTW, the reason I'm posting these questions here and not asking the > XFree86 project is because I'm trying to do this with the ports > collection, which is _not_ the way the XFree86 docs tell you to do it... > > > David Syphers > -- Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <brian@OpenBSD.org> <http://www.Awfulhak.org>; Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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