From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 6 8:33: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.smed.com (smtp.smed.com [12.20.51.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 374C937B43F for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 08:33:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtpgate.shrmed.com (keymaster.smed.com [12.20.51.2]) by smtp.smed.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BB6016166 for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 11:32:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: from iesa14.shrmed.com (iesa14.shrmed.com [10.1.99.114]) by smtpgate.shrmed.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA22570 for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 11:32:59 -0400 From: Joe.Warner@smed.com Received: from Deimos.smed.com (unverified) by iesa14.shrmed.com (Content Technologies SMTPRS 2.0.15) with SMTP id for ; Wed, 06 Sep 2000 11:32:51 -0400 Received: by Deimos.smed.com(Lotus SMTP MTA v4.6.5 (863.2 5-20-1999)) id 85256952.005544B6 ; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 11:31:21 -0400 X-Lotus-FromDomain: SMS To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <85256952.00554270.00@Deimos.smed.com> Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 09:33:40 -0600 Subject: Unable to get Minicom installed MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I've been trying all morning to get minicom from /usr/ports/comms/minicom installed and can't get it to work. First, I tried "make install" from /usr/ports/comms/minicom and it couldn't find it at any of the ftp sites listed in the makefile. Next, I downloaded a newer version of it (1.83) from ftp.freebsd.org but got the following message after unpacking it and typing "make" and "make install" from the unpacked minicom directory: Variable PKGNAME is recursive. Finally, I tried downloading and installing minicom-1.83.1.src.tar.gz from www.pp.clinet.fi/~walker/minicom.html but couldn't get that to work either. Also, I've probably rendered /usr/ports/comms/minicom useless because after I download the tar file from ftp.freebsd.org and couldn't get it to install, I copied the entire contents of the unpacked minicom directory over the top of /usr/ports/comms/minicom, thinking I could do this and then cd to /usr/ports/comms/minicom, type "make install" and it would work but it didn't. Could someone help me get this port installed? I'd really appreciate some help. Thanks Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message