From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 9 17:10:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D128A14BF5 for ; Wed, 9 Jun 1999 17:10:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA06881; Wed, 9 Jun 1999 17:09:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 17:09:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Christopher Michaels Cc: "Jeremy L. Stock" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Ports Question In-Reply-To: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105978@site2s1> 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 On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Christopher Michaels wrote: > This (of course) begs the question. If the make is failing because it > requires the info distribution (is it a dist or a port?) then why isn't it > considered to be a dependency? System components can't be depended on, although it is keying on the existence of /usr/local/info/dir. Does that file exist? Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message