From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 15 04:09:44 2004 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 9214A16A4CE for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 04:09:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C93A43D2D for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 04:09:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (blackwater.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AFCA2BD67 for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 14:09:42 +1000 (EST) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id AEFA6511FE; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 13:39:38 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 13:39:38 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Scott Moss Message-ID: <20040715040938.GH79947@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <003a01c46a1f$b7967d80$0300a8c0@scott> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="e5bfZ/T2xnjpUIbw" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <003a01c46a1f$b7967d80$0300a8c0@scott> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Basic Question (I think): Upgrading xargs 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, 15 Jul 2004 04:09:44 -0000 --e5bfZ/T2xnjpUIbw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Single line paragraphs. On Thursday, 15 July 2004 at 13:56:32 +1000, Scott Moss wrote: > Hi, > > Just wondering what the easiest way to upgrade "xargs" would be. I'm > running 4.5-RELEASE (yes I know -_-, new build is coming with the new > machine). Anyhow I've been constantly getting errors when ever I try > to make anything from ports and it seems to be xargs being an older > version or something like that, doesn't see the -E flag as being > valid. > > What do I have to do to get this fixed ? There are plenty of ways, but they all involve some understanding of the build process. If you need to ask, the simplest answer would be "upgrade to a more recent version of FreeBSD". Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Note: I discard all HTML mail unseen. Finger grog@FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --e5bfZ/T2xnjpUIbw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFA9gOCIubykFB6QiMRAjlpAJ9qZl/n2I0+cT8/lqy0gUBXJMHcSwCgkazR QdkOjK6nmdLGFabj+OPI+H4= =8tTQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --e5bfZ/T2xnjpUIbw--