From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 4 23:51:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6BAD237B400 for ; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 23:51:44 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 56515 invoked by uid 100); 5 Mar 2002 07:51:34 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15492.30981.775676.446738@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 01:51:33 -0600 To: "Paul C. Boyle" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: stop errors in /usr/ports/foo/bar/bin/laden In-Reply-To: <1482626@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: "Mike Meyer" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.48 (Python 2.2 on freebsd4) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Paul C. Boyle types: > My KDE is really going screwy so I am trying to use ports to get other things > running for another X window manager. Not gnome. Probably Afterstep. > I keep getting these stop in /usr/ports/foo/bar > ***Error code 1 > > So the ports are not doing a very good job for me. > > I have tried to unravel some .tgz packages, some work and some don't. > > Can someone point me in the direction for a good FM that give details on > pkg_add Well, the first thing you need to do is log the build process, and trace back through it to find out what the problem *really* is. The message you reported is just what make says when a command fails for some reason. Gotta find the command that failed, and see what *it* said. > So please don't tell me to RTFM. Will you settle for an RTFS? It's at /usr/src/usr.sbin/pkg_install. No, I'm kidding - unless you can are a fluent C programmer, don't look there, don't look there. > So if you know of a good (tech) book that covers these things, as failing > software installation. Should all applications work under X. I could not > get Xroaches to run in KDE but it runs in Afterstep. There isn't a good book that covers it as far as I know, because it's not something that people have to worry about very often. A pkg is a tar file with some magic files inside of it that tell the pkg_add program how to do various things. Reading the pkg_* man pages is the only documentation - other than the source - that I know of. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message