From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 21 13:44:45 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58E0016A4EC for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 13:44:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.acadiau.ca (hades.acadiau.ca [131.162.201.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0125343D78 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 13:44:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from 039320p@acadiau.ca) Received: from localhost (webmail.acadiau.ca [131.162.201.20]) by hades.acadiau.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 600998C04B7 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 17:44:20 -0400 (AST) Received: from dyna172-94.acadiau.ca (dyna172-94.acadiau.ca [131.162.172.94]) as user 039320p@relay.acadiau.ca by webmail.acadiau.ca with HTTP; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 17:44:20 -0400 Message-ID: <1074721460.400ef2b452e09@webmail.acadiau.ca> Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 17:44:20 -0400 From: Murray Patterson <039320p@acadiau.ca> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 4.0-cvs X-Originating-IP: 131.162.172.94 Subject: a few questions about ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 21:44:45 -0000 Hi, I'm trying to get octave, scilab and emacs working for my machine. I first got them from their respective sites and tried to compile and install them for my system, with no success. Then I tried the ports for these: /usr/ports/ math/octave, /usr/ports/math/scilab, and /usr/ports/editors/emacs to see if that would work (not expecting any success), and these failed. So I guess the first question is: Why did the 5.2 iso's include those ports to begin with, when they don't work (I chose to get the ports collection from CD when I installed from CD)? So anyway, I then looked around the freebsd site for ports and came upon: ftp://ftp1.us.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-5.2-release/ and sure enough the ports math/octave, math/scilab, editor/emacs don't exist. So I'm guessing that becuase this ftp site will always contain the most up-to-date ports for the amd64 architecture (am I right?), then I should just keep looking here to see if a port for any of these programs exists in the future. If anyone can shed any light on any of these issues it would be great. Thanks, Murray