Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 01:51:33 -0600 From: "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1015746694.bc6645@mired.org> To: "Paul C. Boyle" <freebsdruns@yahoo.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: stop errors in /usr/ports/foo/bar/bin/laden Message-ID: <15492.30981.775676.446738@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <1482626@toto.iv>
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Paul C. Boyle <freebsdruns@yahoo.com> types: > My KDE is really going screwy so I am trying to use ports to get other things > running for another X window manager. Not gnome. Probably Afterstep. > I keep getting these stop in /usr/ports/foo/bar > ***Error code 1 > > So the ports are not doing a very good job for me. > > I have tried to unravel some .tgz packages, some work and some don't. > > Can someone point me in the direction for a good FM that give details on > pkg_add Well, the first thing you need to do is log the build process, and trace back through it to find out what the problem *really* is. The message you reported is just what make says when a command fails for some reason. Gotta find the command that failed, and see what *it* said. > So please don't tell me to RTFM. Will you settle for an RTFS? It's at /usr/src/usr.sbin/pkg_install. No, I'm kidding - unless you can are a fluent C programmer, don't look there, don't look there. > So if you know of a good (tech) book that covers these things, as failing > software installation. Should all applications work under X. I could not > get Xroaches to run in KDE but it runs in Afterstep. There isn't a good book that covers it as far as I know, because it's not something that people have to worry about very often. A pkg is a tar file with some magic files inside of it that tell the pkg_add program how to do various things. Reading the pkg_* man pages is the only documentation - other than the source - that I know of. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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