Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 16:21:22 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Vizion <vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: php compile options Message-ID: <4321FCD2.7070702@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <200509091146.11136.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> References: <200509090959.40296.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> <4321D0E3.4040909@daleco.biz> <200509091146.11136.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com>
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Vizion wrote: >On Friday 09 September 2005 11:13, the author Kevin Kinsey contributed to the >dialogue on- > Re: php compile options: > > > >>Vizion wrote: >> >> >I do wish thiss kind of info was documented, for every port in >Port_Install.readme or something similar- I have spent ages trying to get to >bottom of how to deal with this! > > > AFAIK, it is documented; see ports(7). >Different ports require different knowledge as to how they should be >installed! > > > `cd /usr/ports/category/fooport && sudo make install clean` works in the general case for every port in the tree* (assuming in this exact case, that you've already installed and configured "sudo", and the directory /usr/ports/category/fooport exists and contains a port skelton, of course). Otherwise do it as root without calling sudo. The system does the work, and, in the general sense, no particular expertise is required. >Ah well -- live and learn I gues -- but once someone has learnt can we not >have a siomple means of passing the learning on without wasting the time of >every learner!! > > Ah, yes. "I am Locutus of Borg. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile." But it only works that way in Star Trek ;-) Real Life is more like Will Rogers: "There are two ways of getting smarter. One is reading, and the other is hanging around with smarter people." Between 'RTFM' and hanging around this list, I'm doing both :-D Kevin Kinsey * Occasionally a port is marked as "broken". Occasionally one is broken, and nobody else knows about it --- yet. Both cases would be exceptions.
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