From owner-freebsd-gnome Sun Jul 21 8:30:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75D6D37B401; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 08:30:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from anchor-post-35.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-35.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01A6143E42; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 08:30:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kevin@caomhin.demon.co.uk) Received: from caomhin.demon.co.uk ([62.49.21.186]) by anchor-post-35.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #2) id 17WIer-0007Iu-0U; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 16:30:05 +0100 Message-ID: Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 16:28:55 +0100 To: sroberts@dsl.pipex.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.org From: Kevin Golding Subject: Re: Installing gnome2 with XFree86-4 - Why is this so difficilt????? References: <1027264013.3d3ace0d2ae43@netmail.pipex.net> In-Reply-To: <1027264013.3d3ace0d2ae43@netmail.pipex.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Turnpike Integrated Version 5.01 U Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Someone, quite probably Stacey Roberts, once wrote: >1] From the *one* reply I've had to my earlier post concerning the gnome2 >install failure, it appear that I have to re-install XFree86-4.2.0. Why is that >after running pkg_delete on XFree86-4.0.2, "make" doesn't go out and get a >fresh set of files for the re-install? > >Am I missing something about the make process here? Presumably there was >something wrong with the XFree86-4 sources I got yesterday when I installed it, >so I would have thought it logical that I should be obtaining a fresh set of >source files for the new install. To fetch new sources you need to remove the old ones from /usr/ports/distfiles. You can either manually rm each tarball or just run "make distclean" before "make". It can also be worth running "make fetch" as your first step to install a port as that simply downloads any files you are missing for that port (although not dependencies). >2] To do the install of XFree86-4 anyways, what I did was pkg_delete of XFree86- >3 in /var/db/pkg; rm -rf /usr/X11R6/*, then editing /etc/make.conf to reflect >that the XFree version is now 4 Since 4.6 I believe the default X has been 4 making such a config redundant. It might be worth running through /etc/defaults/make.conf and seeing if you need to change anything else. If you're not using 4.6 then don't worry about it. Kevin -- kevin@caomhin.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message