Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 11:05:43 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@nwlink.com> Cc: George Cox <gjvc@extremis.demon.co.uk>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What are the differences? Message-ID: <20000128110543.B63975@mithrandr.moria.org> In-Reply-To: <3890F572.17BF6577@nwlink.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10001270958280.4470-100000@mail.telestream.com> <3890A94C.3A424949@nwlink.com> <20000127223528.A2758@extremis.demon.co.uk> <3890F572.17BF6577@nwlink.com>
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On Thu 2000-01-27 (17:48), R Joseph Wright wrote: > installing and upgrading with binaries. I have had a lot of problems > trying to build metaports for kde and gnome that are definitely not > hardware related. I'd type in "make" in the gnome metaport, for > example, and there would be no response, only a new command prompt. meta-ports won't do anything when your type "make". Try "make install". (The reason for this is that to build the meta-port, requires no tools, since the meta-port itself doesn't build anything. However, to run after installation, the meta-port requires the components it is "meta" for to be installed. This might not be immediately obvious.) Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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