Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 11:04:24 +0100 From: HERBELOT Thierry <Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr> To: trout@net66.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: using make install Message-ID: <36A5AA28.A976AEE@telspace.alcatel.fr> References: <3.0.5.32.19990120033817.00914630@net66.com>
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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
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