From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 9 21:23:00 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D07116A41F for ; Fri, 9 Sep 2005 21:23:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz (southernuniform.com [66.76.92.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A751643D45 for ; Fri, 9 Sep 2005 21:22:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [192.168.2.2] ([69.27.149.254]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j89LLWKr072962; Fri, 9 Sep 2005 16:22:09 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Message-ID: <4321FCD2.7070702@daleco.biz> Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 16:21:22 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050823 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Vizion References: <200509090959.40296.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> <4321D0E3.4040909@daleco.biz> <200509091146.11136.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200509091146.11136.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: php compile options 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: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 21:23:00 -0000 Vizion wrote: >On Friday 09 September 2005 11:13, the author Kevin Kinsey contributed to the >dialogue on- > Re: php compile options: > > > >>Vizion wrote: >> >> >I do wish thiss kind of info was documented, for every port in >Port_Install.readme or something similar- I have spent ages trying to get to >bottom of how to deal with this! > > > AFAIK, it is documented; see ports(7). >Different ports require different knowledge as to how they should be >installed! > > > `cd /usr/ports/category/fooport && sudo make install clean` works in the general case for every port in the tree* (assuming in this exact case, that you've already installed and configured "sudo", and the directory /usr/ports/category/fooport exists and contains a port skelton, of course). Otherwise do it as root without calling sudo. The system does the work, and, in the general sense, no particular expertise is required. >Ah well -- live and learn I gues -- but once someone has learnt can we not >have a siomple means of passing the learning on without wasting the time of >every learner!! > > Ah, yes. "I am Locutus of Borg. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile." But it only works that way in Star Trek ;-) Real Life is more like Will Rogers: "There are two ways of getting smarter. One is reading, and the other is hanging around with smarter people." Between 'RTFM' and hanging around this list, I'm doing both :-D Kevin Kinsey * Occasionally a port is marked as "broken". Occasionally one is broken, and nobody else knows about it --- yet. Both cases would be exceptions.