From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 13 11:44:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA19228 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 13 May 1998 11:44:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from peloton.physics.montana.edu (peloton.physics.montana.edu [153.90.192.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA19205 for ; Wed, 13 May 1998 11:44:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.physics.montana.edu (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA00311; Wed, 13 May 1998 12:44:01 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 12:44:01 -0600 (MDT) From: Brett Taylor To: Dennis Tenn cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: AfterStep 1.4.x In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sigh... I guess I should have announced this on -questions in addition to sending my updated port in... > Has anyone been able to successfully compile and install this? Yes - there are a number of apps that fail out of the box due to linux centered code. I've made a port of 1.4.5.3 and submitted it but it hasn't been committed yet. You can grab a copy of the port at: http://peloton.physics.montana.edu/brett/afterstep-devel.tar.gz > installing it (make install) I get an error in which it looks for a > program called 'sgml2html' and can't find it. This is when it tries to > install the docs. I basically remove it so it doesn't install the docs > and all goes well with the install but no way of starting it. For some reason the makefile tries to MAKE the html docs when they're sitting there. sgml2html is a utility to convert sgml docs to html. It's available in the ports (/usr/ports/textproc) and we (FreeBSD) use it to make the docs for FreeBSD. > I just noticed a 1.4.5.55 and will try that one soon. DON'T! This is a development version and has some VERY serious problems (from the mouth of the present author of AS). 1.4.5.3 is the last stable release. > I would like to use 1.4.x just to see what it's like and would > appreciate any insight into this. There's not a lot of functionality difference between 1.0 and 1.4.* as far as I can tell - there IS a great deal of ease however in configuration in the 1.4.* versions. ********************************************************* Brett Taylor brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu http://peloton.physics.montana.edu/brett/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message