From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 10 6: 2:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ice.winterzone.com (ice.winterzone.com [209.98.6.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6644014CA1 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 06:01:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jstock@winterzone.com) Received: from localhost (jstock@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ice.winterzone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA00436; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 08:01:37 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jstock@winterzone.com) Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 08:01:37 -0500 (CDT) From: "Jeremy L. Stock" X-Sender: jstock@localhost To: Doug White Cc: Christopher Michaels , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Ports Question 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 On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Doug White wrote: > 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 > Last night I installed the info distribution haven't tried reinstalling a port that has the check yet, but if they're looking for a file /usr/local/info/dir then they're still broken somehow. I used touch to create that file the first time a port install aborted and it made no difference. -- Jeremy L. Stock To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message