From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 5 15:48:21 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03DD31065697 for ; Fri, 5 Dec 2008 15:48:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bri@brianwhalen.net) Received: from numail.brianwhalen.net (numail.brianwhalen.net [66.93.34.172]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE94D8FC20 for ; Fri, 5 Dec 2008 15:48:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bri@brianwhalen.net) Received: by numail.brianwhalen.net (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 3459328538; Fri, 5 Dec 2008 07:31:59 -0800 (PST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on numail.brianwhalen.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RDNS_DYNAMIC autolearn=no version=3.2.5 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (dsl093-034-235.snd1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.93.34.235]) by numail.brianwhalen.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 869082847A for ; Fri, 5 Dec 2008 07:31:57 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4939496B.7010303@brianwhalen.net> Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:31:55 -0800 From: Brian User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (Windows/20081105) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <49392F02.9010902@maydias.com> <200812051511.59715.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> In-Reply-To: <200812051511.59715.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: desperate Newb help X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:48:21 -0000 Mel wrote: > On Friday 05 December 2008 14:39:14 Warren Liddell wrote: >> I have been trying for quite a while now to try and get some assistance >> from the various lists, google, forums an even man pages and so far not >> a single piece of advise on how to solve my issue and im getting >> desperate an ready to throw BSD in for goin back to godforbid windows, >> so once i again i ask for some help with why QT refuses to compile >> saying ..... >> >> I have used the little-endian an big-endian flag an it made no >> difference, so plz someone have the kindness to help. >> >> ============================= >> >> The target system byte order could not be detected! >> Turn on verbose messaging (-v) to see the final report. >> You can use the -little-endian or -big-endian switch to >> ./configure to continue. >> ===> Script "configure" failed unexpectedly. >> Please report the problem to kde@FreeBSD.org [maintainer] and attach the >> "/usr/ports/databases/qt4-sql/work/qt-x11-opensource-src-4.4.1/src/sql/../. >> .//config.log" > > I have no idea why 'configure' is run. No configure is run for me at all. > Looks like your ports tree isn't sane. How do you upgrade your portstree? > > Instead of using portupgrade, could you just execute the following: > make -C /usr/ports/databases/qt4-sql clean build > If youre new to freebsd, pkg_add -r packagename is infinitely easier than muddling through port build options. Brian