From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 26 10:56:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lv.raad.tartu.ee (lv.raad.tartu.ee [194.126.106.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E639237B40C for ; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 10:56:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee) Received: Message by Barricade lv.raad.tartu.ee with ESMTP id f5QHuNf13242 for ; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 19:56:23 +0200 Message-Id: <200106261756.f5QHuNf13242@lv.raad.tartu.ee> Received: from INFO/SpoolDir by raad.tartu.ee (Mercury 1.48); 26 Jun 01 19:56:26 +0200 Received: from SpoolDir by INFO (Mercury 1.48); 26 Jun 01 19:55:58 +0200 From: "Toomas Aas" Organization: Tartu City Government To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 19:55:55 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: can I ./configure a port? 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 Hello! I'm in a process of slowly getting my first FreeBSD based server functioning. In installing various software I have found the ports collection to be a great help. However, I have couple of questions about this process. Being a newbie to FreeBSD I apologize in advance if these questions seem overwhelmingly stupid :-) 1. Sometimes the authors of software recommend that prior to running make I run ./configure --with-this --with-that etc. It seems that in these cases I can't install from the port but need to download the source and install from that? The ./configure script isn't even there before I run make. 2. Say that I install some port and a newer version of the same software comes out next month. Can I upgrade this port (using, for instance, portupgrade) without upgrading the entire system (kernel sources etc)? TIA, -- Toomas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message