From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 18 21:46:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA13084 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 21:46:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ctech.ac.za (ctech.ac.za [155.238.4.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA13079 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 21:46:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jacques@ctech.ac.za) Received: from wired.ctech.ac.za (wired.ctech.ac.za [155.238.4.21]) by ctech.ac.za (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id HAA18072 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 07:45:27 +0200 (SAST) Received: from wired.ctech.ac.za (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wired.ctech.ac.za (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id HAA25263 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 07:46:10 +0200 (SAST) Message-ID: <3653B0A1.41C67EA6@wired.ctech.ac.za> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 07:46:09 +0200 From: Jacques Hugo X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Maybe it's just me. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi ... Simple question. I love the way in which FreeBSD handles its ports. I usually go into the distfiles directory, download source, compile and install it. Very simple. No rpms, just compile it. But why does it sometimes break? For instance ... I download InterViews 3.1, get the patches, and on a xmkmf -a I get ----------------- mv -f Makefile Makefile.bak imake -DUseInstalled -I/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config make Makefiles "Makefile", line 624: Missing dependency operator "Makefile", line 625: Missing dependency operator "Makefile", line 626: Missing dependency operator make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue *** Error code 1 --------------- What is this? According to the ports collection, you require no other packages, just some patches and it "should" compile the first time. Should I become a guru in Makefiles, or am I screwing up here. I prefer compiling source myself, if I wanted to install packages, I would run a Linux box. Any pointers will help. Cheers -Jacques ------------------------------------------------------ The box said "Requires Windows 3.1 or better" ... so I got BSD Network Administrator | Jacques Hugo UNIX Systems | jacques@ctech.ac.za Cape Technikon | +27-21-4603584 ------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message