Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 12:27:48 +0200 From: Andreas Ntaflos <ant@overclockers.at> To: Bryan Liesner <bleez@bellatlantic.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freetype2?? again! Message-ID: <20020702122748.B44601@Deadcell.ant> In-Reply-To: <20020702020746.L768-100000@gravy.kishka.net>; from bleez@bellatlantic.net on Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 02:20:06AM -0400 References: <20020702062113.B1105@Deadcell.ant> <20020702020746.L768-100000@gravy.kishka.net>
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On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 02:20:06AM -0400, Bryan Liesner wrote: > > First of all, if you look in the Makefile, you'll see that the port > depends on gmake. If you go into the work directory and type make > install, you'll be calling the BSD make, not gmake. Just look at the > contents of "install" in the work directory Yes, I know about that. I never tried to run the BSD make on targets for gmake, I just meant to do the normal `make install` to make sure it is not portupgrade getting in the way. > If you have a . in your path, once again, you'll be calling the > BSD install. > > Having "." in your path IS the cause of the failure. Just for fun, > remove the . from your path, and do a make install. If you insist on > having . in your path, do: Ahh, sorry, my fault. I misread your previous message, as in "you have to have '.' in your path". Must have been to early in the morning or I am just a little stupid lately :) So I removed '.' from root's path and suddenly, it worked. Thanks a lot for that! This would never have crossed my mind! > make clean > make > manually remove the file "install" from work/freetype-2.1.2 > make install > > A "." in your path is convenient, but it's a bad thing... It's gone now, and will never come back in... Somehow funny, just a simple dot was the cause of my headaches and months of thought and build errors :) Thanks a lot again Bryan! -- Andreas "ant" Ntaflos ant@overclockers.at Vienna, AUSTRIA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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