From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 14 18:37:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.nwlink.com (smtp.nwlink.com [209.20.130.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFE3114E54 for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2000 18:37:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rjoseph@nwlink.com) Received: from nwlink.com (ip39.r1.d.bel.nwlink.com [207.202.172.39]) by smtp.nwlink.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA19112; Fri, 14 Jan 2000 18:36:46 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <387FDC69.B77DFF28@nwlink.com> Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 18:33:13 -0800 From: R Joseph Wright X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Salvo Bartolotta , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: can't make certain ports References: <20000114.12033300@bartequi.ottodomain.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Please note: the "official" recipe for updating ports, which recipe > you will also find in the archives, is to run the following in the > updated ports tree: > > 1) make clean [delete source code] > 2) make deinstall [uninstall binary package(s)] > 3) make install [build and install from new port] Here I thought all you had to do was go to the directory and do "make && make install". I'm gonna give your method a try. Thanks. -- Best Regards, Joseph You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. Colette. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message