From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 4 20:59:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from corten2.billschoolcraft.com (adsl-63-193-247-201.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.193.247.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1898F37B404 for ; Tue, 4 Jun 2002 20:59:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from corten8.billschoolcraft.com ([192.168.7.8]) by corten2.billschoolcraft.com with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 17FRcj-0001mu-00; Tue, 04 Jun 2002 20:38:13 -0700 Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 20:42:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Schoolcraft X-X-Sender: bill@corten8 To: Kris Kennaway Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [4.5] Upgrading to XFree-4.2 grrrrr In-Reply-To: <20020604140055.C62978@xor.obsecurity.org> Message-ID: System-ID: [en] (I; Linux i86pc) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 At Tue, 4 Jun 2002 it looks like Kris Kennaway composed: > You might find it easier to just use the packages. You probably have > stale files in /usr/X11R6 that are confusing the build, but it's > impossible to know unless you post the actual errors. > Thanks Kris, I was getting build errors till I 'rm -rf /usr/X11R6/*' then the same builds went fine. There is just a ton of *#@t to build though, /usr/ports/x11/* etc. Thanks again to you and Jonathan Chen for the help in getting me pointed in the right direction. It kinda funny that one can use FreeBSD with absolutly no problems and never need to venture down this road due to its stability. -- |<--------------------------------72---------------------------------->| Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 -o) San Francisco CA 94121 /\ "UNIX, A Way Of Life." _\_v http://forwardslashunix.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message