From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 7 13:48:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from jester.ti.com (jester.ti.com [192.94.94.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B83937B423 for ; Mon, 7 May 2001 13:48:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhuff@armadillo.itg.ti.com) Received: from dlep7.itg.ti.com ([157.170.134.103]) by jester.ti.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f47Kmur20126; Mon, 7 May 2001 15:48:56 -0500 (CDT) Received: from dlep7.itg.ti.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dlep7.itg.ti.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA13254; Mon, 7 May 2001 15:48:55 -0500 (CDT) Received: from armadillo.itg.ti.com (armadillo.itg.ti.com [172.25.44.20]) by dlep7.itg.ti.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA13250; Mon, 7 May 2001 15:48:55 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from dhuff@localhost) by armadillo.itg.ti.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f47KmbY13459; Mon, 7 May 2001 15:48:37 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dhuff) Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 15:48:37 -0500 From: David Huff To: Virtual Bob Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFree86 4.0 for Dummies ? Message-ID: <20010507154837.O11494@armadillo.itg.ti.com> Reply-To: David Huff References: <20010507141854.J11494@armadillo.itg.ti.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from hey9811@yahoo.com on Mon, May 07, 2001 at 03:11:44PM -0500 Organization: Naming Services Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 03:11:44PM -0500, Virtual Bob wrote: > > If in doubt, manually download whatever it needs to /usr/ports/distfiles. > That subdirectory is the first place MAKE looks for when you're compiling > within the /usr/ports tree. Ahhhh...and that's the $1000 question: "Manually download exactly which files ?" (perhaps this list of files it's looking for is in the Makefile ? sorry, but I'm used to installing binary packages under FreeBSD - tho' I have compiled stuff from source under Linux and Solaris from time to time) Regards, -- _ __| |_ David Huff, Texas Instruments \_ _} Internet and Naming Services \_( david@ti.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message