From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Feb 29 20:48:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from europe.std.com (europe.std.com [199.172.62.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 254E137BDC4 for ; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 20:48:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kwc@world.std.com) Received: from world.std.com (root@world-f.std.com [199.172.62.5]) by europe.std.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA05339 for ; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 23:48:10 -0500 (EST) Received: (from kwc@localhost) by world.std.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA29585; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 23:47:07 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 23:47:07 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth W Cochran Message-Id: <200003010447.XAA29585@world.std.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Fixed: Trouble installing xpdf port in 3.4-stable Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all (again)... Many thanks for the prompt & thorough responses to my "little xpdf problem." I appreciate your suggestions in my getting this working. As Chuck Robey (chuckr@picnic.mat.net) pointed out (& as I found out myself upon some poking-around aka "hacking" :), my problem was actually in a dependency-build, namely "t1lib." Well, I got it (xpdf) working; here's what I did: (aka "lessons learned" that I've not been able to find in docs/Handbook or in Greg's 3rd Edition... :) 1. Cvsup my ports. (I've been tracking -stable in src-all for some time now.) Apparently it is a *Very* Good Idea to track -ports (ie. cvsup ports-all) if you're tracking -stable. A couple of folks suggested this... :) 2. Tried the make again. It bombed again, but this time make complained about not being able to cd into t1lib's work directory. I removed the files in that directory & tried the make again. This time it downloaded a newer t1lib version, built it & completed the entire procedure. I now have a working xpdf. :) Notes: 1. I bet there is a make target that would have taken care of my t1lib boo-boo; it would be nice if I could find some "definitive list" of the various Ports-related make targets & functions, but it would not surprise me if it changes with maintenance... I've seen some mention of these here on the list... 2. My original "goal" of being able to get my ports distfiles off the CDs seems much less workagle in this case. At this point I'm not sure how to deal with this... 3. My little issue here seems to have touched-off mini-discussion on some crypto legalities/politics. :) I was not aware of some of this & I'm glad this stuff has been brought to light. Again, thanks for all your help & the resulting interesting "threads." -kc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message