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Date:      Mon, 5 Jul 1999 12:06:45 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>
To:        Stan Brown <stanb@awod.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Broken ports
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.4.10.9907051158550.19262-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net>
In-Reply-To: <19990705164825.96A0D15020@hub.freebsd.org>

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On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Stan Brown wrote:

# 	xscrabble is marked as broke because of the tar file. While the tar
# 	file on the original site has been wrong for some perios of time, the
# 	last time I simply grabed it from teh FreeBSD site by hand, and it
# 	built liek a charm. BTW the difference is probably a fix for 4 players
# 	that was pushed back upstream from the HP porting cneter.

Comment out the MASTER_SITES entry in the port's Makefile and
fetch it from ftp.freebsd.org.  Or you can set MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE
in your environment.  See ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk for details on the
latter.

# 	xgrab ws marked as broken, ecause of needing to run xrdb. Huh, what;s
# 	wrong with runing xrdb? Is anyone aware of a screen printign program
# 	that works from the ports colection other than this one?

	DISPLAY=your_machine:0.0 make install

# 	How can I overide the "broken" flag, and try to build xscrabble?

It is usually broken for a reason, but you can override this flag
by building a port with.

	NO_IGNORE=yes make install

-steve



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