From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 30 16:47:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from envy.geekhouse.net (ether.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1B0E37B424 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 16:47:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jim@localhost) by envy.geekhouse.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e7UJhWd50226; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 12:43:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim) Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 12:43:32 -0700 From: Jim Mock To: Nilmoni Deb Cc: Theo Bell , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: adding a port Message-ID: <20000830124332.B50025@envy.geekhouse.net> Reply-To: jim@jmock.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from ndeb@ece.cmu.edu on Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 02:34:46PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 30 Aug 2000 at 14:34:46 -0400, Nilmoni Deb wrote: > On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Theo Bell wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Generally when you compile a port it looks in /usr/ports/distfiles > > Sometimes ports (like xemacs I believe) make their own directory > > in /usr/ports/distfiles. > > In that case why doesn't the makefile give an intelligent error > message such as ``Please read the documentation.'' > Atleast that saves the time of downloading a 12MB file (like > netscape) for 45 minutes if the user has already downloaded it once. The porters-handbook tells you where the tarball should be. On the second line of Chapter 2. ``First, get the original tarball and put it into DISTDIR, which defaults to /usr/ports/distfiles.'' - jim -- jim mock work: jim@osd.bsdi.com | jim@FreeBSD.org http://soupnazi.org/ BSDi Open Source Div | http://bsdi.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message