From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 20 01:45:08 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA03912 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 01:45:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA03878 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 01:45:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id UAA09482; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 20:14:56 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.2/8.9.0) id UAA15743; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 20:14:54 +1030 (CST) Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 20:14:53 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: trout@net66.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: using make install Message-ID: <19990120201453.V4646@freebie.lemis.com> References: <3.0.5.32.19990120033817.00914630@net66.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990120033817.00914630@net66.com>; from trout@net66.com on Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 03:38:17AM -0600 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 20 January 1999 at 3:38:17 -0600, trout@net66.com wrote: > > howdy: > > last night i decided to install a few of the billion or so ports that are > on the cd release of freebsd 3.0. i tried to install emacs20, so i entered > > make install emacs20 > > it started installing, and it went on for a little while, then stopped with > this: > > ===>Registering installation for emacs-20.3 > make: don't know how to make emacs20. Stop It looks as if you have said too much. The correct command is: # make install The target 'emacs-20.3' is not appropriate, and this is make's way of telling you so. Are you sure it's not already installed? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message