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Date:      Fri, 28 Nov 2003 01:29:17 +0200
From:      Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@apropo.ro>
To:        Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@apropo.ro>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Cannot perform make install
Message-ID:  <20031128012917.19f45312.itetcu@apropo.ro>
In-Reply-To: <20031128011253.7017b046.itetcu@apropo.ro>
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On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 01:12:53 +0200
Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@apropo.ro> wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 18:05:10 -0500
> Trey Sizemore <trey@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 17:28, Trey Sizemore wrote:
> > > I have installed FreeBSD 5.1 on my laptop and have successfully
> > > installed KDE and other apps by going to the appropriate ports
> > > directory and performing a 'make install clean'.
> > > 
> > > However, when I tried to install nautilus by going to
> > > /usr/ports/x11-fm/nautilus and typing 'make install clean' (without
> > > the quotes, of course), I'm getting the following error:
> > > 
> > > make:  don't know how to make install. Stop
> > > 
> > > If I just use make, I get:
> > > 
> > > make:  no target to make.
> 
> Do a ls and see if you have a Makefile :)
> You probably have only a readme.html file in that directory which is the
> reason the directory itself wasn't deleted by cvsup.

I think that if you do :
cd / && find /usr/ports/ -type f -name 'readme.html' -exec rm {} \;
and cvsup again you'll get rid of the old directories.


-- 
IOnut
Unregistered ;) FreeBSD user



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