Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 16:28:55 +0100 From: Kevin Golding <kevin@caomhin.demon.co.uk> To: sroberts@dsl.pipex.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Installing gnome2 with XFree86-4 - Why is this so difficilt????? Message-ID: <PBz3TBB3MtO9Ews2@caomhin.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <1027264013.3d3ace0d2ae43@netmail.pipex.net> References: <1027264013.3d3ace0d2ae43@netmail.pipex.net>
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Someone, quite probably Stacey Roberts, once wrote: >1] From the *one* reply I've had to my earlier post concerning the gnome2 >install failure, it appear that I have to re-install XFree86-4.2.0. Why is that >after running pkg_delete on XFree86-4.0.2, "make" doesn't go out and get a >fresh set of files for the re-install? > >Am I missing something about the make process here? Presumably there was >something wrong with the XFree86-4 sources I got yesterday when I installed it, >so I would have thought it logical that I should be obtaining a fresh set of >source files for the new install. To fetch new sources you need to remove the old ones from /usr/ports/distfiles. You can either manually rm each tarball or just run "make distclean" before "make". It can also be worth running "make fetch" as your first step to install a port as that simply downloads any files you are missing for that port (although not dependencies). >2] To do the install of XFree86-4 anyways, what I did was pkg_delete of XFree86- >3 in /var/db/pkg; rm -rf /usr/X11R6/*, then editing /etc/make.conf to reflect >that the XFree version is now 4 Since 4.6 I believe the default X has been 4 making such a config redundant. It might be worth running through /etc/defaults/make.conf and seeing if you need to change anything else. If you're not using 4.6 then don't worry about it. Kevin -- kevin@caomhin.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message
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