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Subject: Re: fvwm95 port; xpm port make problems
To: alwan@rma.edu (Michael Alwan)
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 17:36:31 +0100 (MEZ)
Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970224083603.00687a0c@rma.edu> from "Michael Alwan" at Feb 24, 97 08:36:03 am
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E-mail message from Michael Alwan contained:
> To all:
> 
> Got the port skeleton for fvwm95; ran make, install; ftp'd to freebsd.org
> for dist; then the process hung when it didn't find the xpm directory on my
> machine.
> 
> Got the xpm port; ran make install; ftp'd to freebsd.org for dist; then the
> process hung on "can't find xmkmf."
> 
> Since I had the distribution, I cd to /usr/ports/graphics/xpm where I found
> the files partly installed.  In the xpm directory, ran make install; the
> process hung with the same error: "can't find xmkmf."
> 
> I tried piping the output of make install to xmkmf like so:
> 
> make install | /usr/X11R6/bin/xmkmf
> 
> This is what happens:  1) the Makefile is renamed Makefile.bak 2) some
> compilation begins 3) the process hangs with the message "can't find imake."
> 
> I'm new at FreeBSD and ports, so there may be just a little tweak needed to
> a patch or makefile to get this to work.   I looked around but saw nothing
> obvious.  Any ideas?

Do you have /usr/X11R6/bin in the PATH of the user doing the compilation?

/Marino
> 
> Michael Alwan
>