From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 28 3:23:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 981FD1519F for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 03:23:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nbm@sunesi.net) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 12E7Lb-000Gi2-00; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 11:05:43 +0200 Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 11:05:43 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: R Joseph Wright Cc: George Cox , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What are the differences? Message-ID: <20000128110543.B63975@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <3890A94C.3A424949@nwlink.com> <20000127223528.A2758@extremis.demon.co.uk> <3890F572.17BF6577@nwlink.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <3890F572.17BF6577@nwlink.com> Organization: Rhodes University Computer Users' Society X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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