From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 19 05:24:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA00368 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 05:24:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from iglou.com (iglou1.iglou.com [192.107.41.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA00359 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 05:24:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from patrick@cre8tivegroup.com) Received: from [204.255.227.91] (helo=gateway.cre8tivegroup.com) by iglou.com with esmtp (8.9.1/8.9.1) id 0zgU37-0006FE-00; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 08:23:06 -0500 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3653B0A1.41C67EA6@wired.ctech.ac.za> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 08:22:54 -0500 (EST) From: Patrick Gardella To: Jacques Hugo Subject: RE: Maybe it's just me. Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If you are using the port, why are you running xmkmf? Just typing "make" in the port directory will do it. Patrick On 19-Nov-98 Jacques Hugo wrote: > Hi ... > > Simple question. > > I love the way in which FreeBSD handles its ports. > I usually go into the distfiles directory, download > source, compile and install it. Very simple. No > rpms, just compile it. But why does it sometimes > break? > > For instance ... I download InterViews 3.1, get the > patches, and on a xmkmf -a I get > > ----------------- > mv -f Makefile Makefile.bak > imake -DUseInstalled -I/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config > make Makefiles > "Makefile", line 624: Missing dependency operator > "Makefile", line 625: Missing dependency operator > "Makefile", line 626: Missing dependency operator > make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue > *** Error code 1 > --------------- > > What is this? According to the ports collection, > you require no other packages, just some patches > and it "should" compile the first time. > > Should I become a guru in Makefiles, or am I screwing > up here. I prefer compiling source myself, if I wanted > to install packages, I would run a Linux box. > > Any pointers will help. > > Cheers > -Jacques > > ------------------------------------------------------ > The box said "Requires Windows 3.1 or better" > ... so I got BSD > > Network Administrator | Jacques Hugo > UNIX Systems | jacques@ctech.ac.za > Cape Technikon | +27-21-4603584 > ------------------------------------------------------ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message --- Patrick S. Gardella Director of Web Development The Creative Group 1-800-804-0783 ext 29 606-858-8029 (fax) http://www.cre8tivegroup.com PGP Key ID 0xEE2D47A9 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message