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From: Werner Griessl <werner@btp1da.phy.uni-bayreuth.de>
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Subject: Re: minicom-1.75 fails
To: obrien@Nuxi.com (David E. O'Brien)
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 12:02:10 +0000 ()
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In-Reply-To: <199607112220.PAA09303@relay.nuxi.com> from "David E. O'Brien" at "Jul 11, 96 03:20:22 pm"
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> > Tried to install minicom-1.75 today from ports.
> > It failed with:
> 
> Did you extract the portball into a clean directory, or on top of a
> minicom directory with the old portball extracted into it?  There are
> less patch files, and this may be what is causing this problem.
> 
> Please, refetch the portball from ftp.freebsd.org, extract it into a
> clean directory, and re-make.  There is currently a bug in the
> ``install'' target, so you want to use ``make BATCH=yes install''.
> 
> 
> -- David    (obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu)
> 

I did a refetch and now the port compiles but install fails with

===>  Installing for minicom-1.75
===>  minicom-1.75 depends on executable: rz - found
===>  minicom-1.75 depends on executable: sz - found
===>  minicom-1.75 depends on executable: kermit - found
# this script creates a link from your comm port to /dev/modem
/bin/sh /usr/ports/comms/minicom/scripts/create-dev-link
/usr/ports/comms/minicom/scripts/create-dev-link: Can't open /usr/ports/comms/minicom/scripts/create-dev-link
*** Error code 2

Stop.
*** Error code 1

Stop.
*** Error code 1

Stop.

Werner