From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 16 22:33:50 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 E282A16A41C for ; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 22:33:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dennyboy@cableone.net) Received: from S2.cableone.net (smtp2.cableone.net [24.116.0.228]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7DED43D55 for ; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 22:33:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dennyboy@cableone.net) Received: from dualman.cableone.net (unverified [24.119.190.179]) by S2.cableone.net (CableOne SMTP Service S2) with ESMTP id 22306804 for multiple; Thu, 16 Jun 2005 16:14:23 -0700 Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 17:33:37 -0500 (CDT) From: Denny White To: Chuck Swiger In-Reply-To: <42B1F6D1.8070201@mac.com> Message-ID: <20050616172513.V63362@dualman.cableone.net> References: <20050616152957.B72699@dualman.cableone.net> <42B1E91B.5040001@mac.com> <20050616163726.M63362@dualman.cableone.net> <42B1F6D1.8070201@mac.com> X-GPG-PUBLIC_KEY: http://wwwkeys.nl.pgp.net X-GPG-FINGERPRINT: D0A9 AD44 1F10 E09E OE67 EC25 CB44 F2E5 1644 E79A MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-IP-stats: Incoming Last 0, First 32, in=38, out=0, spam=0 X-External-IP: 24.119.190.179 X-Abuse-Info: Send abuse complaints to abuse@cableone.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ./configure question 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: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 22:33:51 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Denny White wrote: > [ ... ] >> Okay, I messed up again. I described it wrong >> before. I should've said, if I do >> >> /usr/src/contrib/binutils/./configure -args >> >> It works okay. I found that with locate. > > Are you trying to build src/contrib/binutils? What for? > >> Could I have messed up scripts in /usr/ports >> or somewhere else when I rebuilt everything? > > Dunno. What is the problem you have with ports? > >> I never had to add any path to ./configure >> before. After I wrote this message, I thought >> about paths & did some looking with locate. >> That's what seems to be my problem. Wrong >> path in env, something missing, etc. > > Run the script command. Do something which shows what you think is a > problem. Exit from the shell, and paste the contents of the "typescript" > file created into email so you can show exactly what the error message is. > > -- > -Chuck > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Okay, I see I'm in such a confused state that I appear to be confusing others. I had read somewhere that you can go into a port dir you want to install, and do make extract & then cd into the work dir just created, you could do a ./configure with some option afterward that would show you all the available arguments/options you can include when you configure it before making it, instead of reading the makefile. Then, in that dir, you do ./configure --arguments --options to get it ready to build it the way you want. And, instead of that, you can also do ./configure \ which puts you in a shell on the next line where you enter all the arguments and then exit on an empty line when you're done. Which, btw, works for me. I hope this time I've made it more clear. And no, I'm not trying to build binutils. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCsf5Ly0Ty5RZE55oRAoalAJ9OJ/H+kZ1K1OTUXPhWCyULSdTxEQCdGYF5 rkjbIaZ9jCrOCc7sRIoIJjA= =nviR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----