From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 9 17:39:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA24652 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 17:39:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cedb.dpcsys.com (ns2.BEACH.net [209.25.4.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA24647 for ; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 17:39:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by cedb.dpcsys.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id AAA07185; Tue, 10 Jun 1997 00:39:01 GMT Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 17:39:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: Margaret Tarbet cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Source for nedit? In-Reply-To: <339c8f8a.640919@mail.tiac.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, Margaret Tarbet wrote: > I'm sure this will cause convulsions of laughter, but i can't > find it. It is in the distribution, right? I found the .tgz > file and peeled it open, but there's no source there. I called The ports do not contain full source, only the diffs needed to port the base distribution to FreeBSD. Unpack a port file and cd into it's directory, eg, nedit, and run make. Make will fetch the most current source from the master site for the software, and usually will also try a couple backup sites in case the master is down. It then applies the patches and builds the software. Also, since nedit uses the Motif libraries the port won't help most people. The package version has a statically linked binary. Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82