Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 13:10:31 -0500 (EST) From: Sue Bauer-Lee <sblee@eeyore.taz.tac.com> To: handy@sag.space.lockheed.com, chuckr@glue.umd.edu, asami@cs.berkeley.edu, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: sblee@eeyore.taz.tac.com (Sue Bauer-Lee) Subject: bulding new versions Message-ID: <199803011810.NAA14957@eeyore.taz.tac.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.96.980301090900.17994C-100000@sag.space.lockheed.com> from "Brian Handy" at Mar 1, 98 09:15:56 am
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Thanks, Brian. > > [Forwarded along at Sue's request, with my comments...] > > On Sat, 28 Feb 1998, Sue Bauer-Lee wrote: > > >Here's the poop. Put the gzipped sources in my home dir. Unzipped. When I > >tried to compile, I ran into a number of obstacle. First, it couldn't get > >the location of libsx straight. It's not in /usr/X11R6/include, it's in > >/usr/X11R6/include/libsx Second, it couldn't find libforms. To the best of > >my knowledge, this belongs to the ncurses devel pkg. The only place it > >exists on my FreeBSD system in /usr/compat/linux/usr/lib so I put in a sym > >link to there. This generated the unresolved symbols. Understandable. But > >where's the rest of the build stuff? > > You don't want to unzip the distfiles. Those ideally go in > /usr/ports/distfiles. Later you tell me you have the FBSD cdrom, for your > original problem (xfce) you could do something like I didn't. Recall that I was attempting to build/install software separately from ports structure. Does your response imply that this is not an option for the FreeBSD distribution? Can I not compile and install software of MY choice? As indicated, I've run into problems using ports structure and independantly of the ports structure. > > cd /usr/ports/x11/xfce > make DISTDIR=/cdrom/wherever/distfiles/are all Found this in the handbook. Executed once successfully (m4), once unsuccessfully (autoconf - claimed it couldn'y find m4 AFTER I installed m4 using ports structure). > > >> It keeps track of what you've installed. Do an ls of /var/db/pkg. This > >> is where all the bookkeeping info goes, and this is where we keep the > >> stuff we need to pkg_delete things you don't need anymore. > > > >found it already..... deleted some stuff I didn't want wasting space. :) > > Oops. It helps to hang onto that stuff in case you want to remove > packages later. It's just a handful of about 3 text files in each > directory. If you want to save space, delete X. :-) Used pkg_delete to remove packages I KNOW I don't want anymore. > > >> SO, I'm guessing the problem is *maybe* you don't have a grip on our ports > >> tree yet? If you downloaded the distfile on your own, just drop it in > >> /usr/ports/distfiles and the ports system should Just Find It. > > > >Another interesting issue. I also tried to install autoconf so I put > >m4...gz in /tmp. Sent you the other little note, and built and installed > >m4 without any problem. Yeah! Next, do the same for autoconf. Oops. Ports > >stuff refuses to go look in /tmp. So I put it in /usr/ports/distfiles. > >Still no go. What gives here? Cause it almost sounds like if I move the > >xfce sources.gz to distfiles, and go to the xfce dir in the ports tree > >that my build problems go away. I'm not yet convinced. > > make DISTDIR=/tmp all > > (Documented in /usr/share/mk/bsd.port.mk, but may also be in the > handbook.) > Actually, I think this is documented as make DISTDIR=/tmp install which, as noted above, works, sorta. Was able to install m4 this way, but when I went to install autoconf this way, it couldn't find m4. Recall in a previous email (please forward that 1 also if you still have it) indicating our secure env which won't allow outbound active ftp sessions.... Kinda blows your 'autofind/fetch' out the window..... Why are things apparently so restrictive??? I've had engineers productive FASTER on Solaris x86 than what I've experienced here. How can we help make this easier? ----------------------------------------------------- Sue Bauer-Lee | KE4HNN PO Box 2900 | Lilburn, GA 30048 | Email: sblee@taz.tac.com ----------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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