Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 10:26:46 -0500 From: "Wills, Ken" <kwills@gflesch.com> To: Gene Harris <zeus@tetron03.tetronsoftware.com>, "Wills, Ken" <kwills@gflesch.com> Cc: Danny <danny@idx.com.au>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: GNOME installation problem --help Message-ID: <058BE165CBA8D111A82E0008C79F9E3502488D@gfc-mad-dc.gflesch.int>
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> From: Gene Harris [mailto:zeus@tetron03.tetronsoftware.com] > Sent: Thursday, October 28, 1999 8:50 AM > To: Wills, Ken > Cc: Danny; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: RE: GNOME installation problem --help > > > > You really need to use the ports collection for this. Yes - I should have stressed this. > > I was inspecting the patches for gnome (and its > dependencies) and they are quite extensive. I could never > get the original sources to compile correctly. As a project > to learn more about FreeBSD, I started duplicating the port > patches, but some of them are not obvious to a newbie at BSD > and X11 programming. I tried this once upon a time and got quite far into it. But it began to get _very_ frustrating _very_ quickly. > > > Question:- > > > > > > Which file should I compile and what commands do I type in ?? > > > > > > > There's quite a bit do do... > > > > No kidding! About a million at last count. *grin* > ..small slip there revealing my true feelings about gnome so far. I did of course mean to say - "That's quite a lot of dodo". I'd say save your self the trouble and use blackbox instead (it's a _huge_ 150K download) :) Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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