From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 28 10:38:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from monsoon.mail.pipex.net (monsoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F10F515FF0 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 10:37:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (qmail 18603 invoked from network); 28 Jan 2000 18:37:45 -0000 Received: from userbl32.uk.uudial.com (HELO marder-1.) (62.188.144.139) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 28 Jan 2000 18:37:45 -0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA01221; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 18:37:37 GMT (envelope-from mark) Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 18:37:37 +0000 From: Mark Ovens To: Joao Pedras Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xpdf port Message-ID: <20000128183737.D331@marder-1> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 12:46:54PM -0000, Joao Pedras wrote: > Hello all > > When trying to install xpdf from the port (3.4-stable of 11 days ago) it stays > at "checking whether external symbols need an underscore prefix..." > > I waited for some minutes and it just does this. Is it just me ? > No, I used to see this sometimes, although I've not had a problem with it for a while now (I'm also running 3.4-STABLE). IIRC what I did was run ./configure manually. For some reason it seems to work that way - never did find out why :-/. When I then re-ran make(1) it worked (because the cache file that configure creates now exists). Weird I know, but if it works then just do it. > Thanks > > Joao > > ^\ /^ > O O > ----------------------------------------o00-(_)-00o-------------------------- > > Don't cook tonight -- starve a rat today! > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > PGP key available upon request or may be cut at > http://pedras.webvolution.net/pgpkey.html > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- "there's a long-standing bug relating to the x86 architecture that allows you to install Windows too" -Matthew D. Fuller ________________________________________________________________ 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