From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 20 02:20:56 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA07952 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 02:20:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mel.alcatel.fr (mel.alcatel.fr [212.208.74.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA07942 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 02:20:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr) Received: from aifhs2.alcatel.fr (mailhub.alcatel.fr [155.132.180.80]) by mel.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP) with ESMTP id LAA12363; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 11:19:48 +0100 Received: from lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (lune.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.144.65]) by aifhs2.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with ESMTP id LAA19373; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 11:17:30 +0100 (MET) Received: from telss1 (telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.51.4]) by lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id KAA13632; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 10:52:48 +0100 (MET) Received: from telspace.alcatel.fr (nairobi.telspace.alcatel.fr) by telss1 (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA17934; Wed, 20 Jan 99 10:59:49 +0100 Message-Id: <36A5AA28.A976AEE@telspace.alcatel.fr> Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 11:04:24 +0100 From: HERBELOT Thierry Organization: Alcatel Telspace X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: trout@net66.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: using make install References: <3.0.5.32.19990120033817.00914630@net66.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello Well, it may have succeeded ! 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 I will assume you were in the /usr/ports/editors/emacs20 To use ports, you just have to type "make install" (this is why make complains about not being able to make emacs20 : you asked make to make two tagets : install, which it does know how to and emacs20, which it does not know how to) > > 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 > > i tried to install a few other editors, and they all ended just like this. > am i correct in assuming that this isn't supposed to happen? just for kicks > i tried to start emacs20 by entering "emacs20," and nothing happened > (command not found). after you install a program, you must type "rehash" (under csh) to tell your shell that there are new executable programs. The newly installed emacs is perhaps not known as emacs20 (I have Xemacs20.4 at home and it is called xemacs) TfH > > what now? > > thanks > -aaron > > "Disgruntled? Hell, they're all disgruntled. I ain't runnin no daisy farm. > My motto is do it my way or watch your butt." > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message