From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 11 02:28:51 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACD1816A4BF for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 02:28:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mmepc1098.leeds.ac.uk (mmepc1098.leeds.ac.uk [129.11.118.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BFE544008 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 02:28:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from meddtb@leeds.ac.uk) Received: from localhost (localhost.leeds.ac.uk [127.0.0.1]) h8B9SmqD015812 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 10:28:49 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from meddtb@leeds.ac.uk) Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 10:28:48 +0100 (BST) From: "David Bonthron (d.t.bonthron@leeds.ac.uk)" X-X-Sender: dtb@mmepc1098.leeds.ac.uk To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030910200602.X14720@mmepc1098.leeds.ac.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Compiling doscmd X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 09:28:51 -0000 Hello all. I am trying to set up doscmd, following the man and Marc Fonvieille's article (http://soupnazi.org/freebsdzine/200103/doscmd.php). As X11 support is not compiled into doscmd in the 4.8-RELEASE system I am using, I installed the usr/src/usr.bin sources. Then: # cd /usr/src/usr.bin/doscmd # setenv X11BASE /usr/X11R6 # make Warning: Object directory not changed from original /usr/src/usr.bin/doscmd uudecode /usr/src/usr.bin/doscmd/cp437-8x8.pcf.gz.uu uudecode /usr/src/usr.bin/doscmd/cp437-8x14.pcf.gz.uu uudecode /usr/src/usr.bin/doscmd/cp437-8x16.pcf.gz.uu make: don't know how to make /usr/src/usr.bin/doscmd/../../share/syscons/fonts/cp437-8x8.fnt. Stop Not a big surprise, because man doscmd says: If doscmd emits the message X11 support not compiled in when supplied the -x switch, this support can be added by defining an environment variable X11BASE which points to the installed X Window System (normally /usr/X11R6) and then typing make install in the source directory (nor- mally /usr/src/usr.bin/doscmd). For this to work, the X programmer's kit must have been installed. Can anyone tell me what exactly "X programmer's kit"? refers to? Is the dependency on one particular library or package or do I have to resort to installing the entire X development distribution? (I know the latter course of action works, at least from one previous effort on a 5.1 machine, but I don't really want to install all this stuff just for the sake of doscmd, do I ....?) Can't shed much light on this by Googling and I am afraid I am pretty clueless when it comes to rooting through Makefiles. Thanks in advance for your help. David