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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: Jason C Roberts <dirtycatfish@juno.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: compiling ports
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On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 09:21:08PM -0700, Jason C Roberts wrote:
> Here's the output of 'uname -a': 'FreeBSD 4.3-Release FreeBSD 4.3-Release
> #0: Sat Apr 21 10:54:49 GMT 2001.'
>=20
> My question is:  is there anything I need to do besides installing the
> ports collection and typing "make build" in the given directory to
> compile the given port?  After reading the handbook that's all it appears
> I need to do; however I get this error messege, for example, after typing
> "make build":

'make build' isn't a valid target.  You probably wanted something else
like 'make install clean'

> '>>greed-3.3.tar.gz doesnt seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/.'
>=20
> After looking in /usr/ports/distfiles/ on my own, I found this statement
> is true.  In addition to the above messege I also recieve this one 5 or 6
> times:
>=20
> 'Stop in /usr/ports/games/greed
> *** Error code 1'=20

Well, if the distfile doesn't exist in /usr/ports/distfiles then the
system has to fetch it.  If the fetch failed then there's some reason
why you can't fetch it (perhaps your network connection isn't
working).

Kris
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