From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 4 12:57:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from typhoon.mail.pipex.net (typhoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4035B14FC5 for ; Sat, 4 Dec 1999 12:57:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (qmail 29699 invoked from network); 4 Dec 1999 20:55:12 -0000 Received: from userat43.uk.uudial.com (HELO marder-1.) (62.188.137.146) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 4 Dec 1999 20:55:12 -0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.3/8.8.8) id UAA00490; Sat, 4 Dec 1999 20:55:11 GMT (envelope-from mark) Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 20:55:11 +0000 From: Mark Ovens To: xy 127 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: making a port?? Message-ID: <19991204205511.B319@marder-1> References: <19991204192808.28980.qmail@hotmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <19991204192808.28980.qmail@hotmail.com> Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 02:28:08PM -0500, xy 127 wrote: > Hey, > > I'm running FreeBSD 3.3 on a HP Pavilioin with a pentium-300 MHz. > My question is regarding building a port. Since I've installed > FreeBSD this is the first port I tried to build and it failed. > > I downloaded cdrecord.tar.gz from the FreeBSD Ports collection and > extracted it and typed ``make'' and here's the error I got: > > bash-2.03$ make ^ Firstly, you should run this as root. > "/usr/share/mk/bsd.port.mk", line 2: Could not find > /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk > make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue > bash-2.03$ > bash-2.03$ more /usr/share/mk/bsd.port.mk > PORTSDIR?= /usr/ports > .include "${PORTSDIR}/Mk/bsd.port.mk" > bash-2.03$ > > My /usr/ports directory is empty. Where can I get > /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk??? > Run /stand/sysinstall; Custom->Distributions->Custom(press SPACE to select, not RETURN) then check Ports > Also why is it when I extract cdrecord.tar.gz with > `tar zxvf cdrecord.tar.gz` it puts the files in > pub/FreeBSD/branches/-current/ports/sysutils/?? > Why doesn't it just extract the files you need, whats the > deal with all the extra dirs? > Hmm, not sure, but it will work OK once you've got the ports tree installed. HTH > Please send replys to my email address, because I do not subscribe > to the mailing list. Thanks. > > > > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- PERL has been described as "the duct tape of the Internet" and "the Unix Swiss Army chainsaw" - Computer Shopper 12/99 ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message