From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 22 09:44:36 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F84616A4CE for ; Sun, 22 Feb 2004 09:44:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from typhoon.enabled.com (typhoon.enabled.com [216.218.220.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7762E43D1D for ; Sun, 22 Feb 2004 09:44:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from admin2@enabled.com) Received: from enabled.com (localhost.enabled.com [127.0.0.1]) by typhoon.enabled.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i1MHiZOh045856 for ; Sun, 22 Feb 2004 09:44:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from admin2@enabled.com) From: "Noah" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 09:44:35 -0800 Message-Id: <20040222174152.M60856@enabled.com> In-Reply-To: <200402220932.45565.kstewart@owt.com> References: <20040222171405.M82310@enabled.com> <200402220932.45565.kstewart@owt.com> X-Mailer: Open WebMail 2.30 20040117 X-OriginatingIP: 64.121.33.4 (admin2) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Subject: Re: xsnow not building X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 17:44:36 -0000 O > > You have a mixed combo. You have part of 3.3.6 installed and 4.2. > You need a clean XFree86-4 for anything to work. Do you have an > "XFREE86_VERSION" in your /etc/make.conf. I can't think of anyway > you would have both 3.3.6 and 4.2 installed unless you did. > > It also sounds like you might have an out of date port system. At > this point, you might as well upgrade to version XFree86-4.3.0. I > would think about getting a working 4.2 before updating. There are > some problems with make on the older systems. Port maintainers are > using new make options that don't work on the pre-4.9 systems. > > A current 4.9-stable will be different than what you are using now. thanks Kent, I understand what I need to do now. well my /usr/ports have teh 4.3.0 version now. so I dont know how I can install 4.2 core distribution also I am cvsup'ing the stable files every night. how can I guarantee that I am receiving the 4.9-stable files? this is the entry I am using: --- snip --- *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4 --- snip --- should that work - how can I verify that its the 4.9 kernel and system files I am receiving? thanks in advance, - Noah > > Kent > > -- > Kent Stewart > Richland, WA > > http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"