From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 9 05:42:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA16354 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 9 Feb 1997 05:42:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from nero.in-design.com (root@nero.in-design.com [204.157.146.146]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA16349 for ; Sun, 9 Feb 1997 05:42:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from nero.in-design.com (info@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nero.in-design.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA10563; Sun, 9 Feb 1997 08:42:58 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 9 Feb 1997 08:42:57 -0500 (EST) From: Intuitive Design Info To: jack cc: Dean Anderson , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTP site In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 9 Feb 1997, jack wrote: > Date: Sun, 9 Feb 1997 01:33:29 -0500 (EST) > From: jack > To: Dean Anderson > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: FTP site > > On Sun, 9 Feb 1997, Dean Anderson wrote: > > > Then just don't imply to anyone that you have msql, or anything else you > > don't actually have. > > If you had bothered to glance at the README you would have been aware that > what is offered in the ports directories are PATCHES and MAKEFILES to > painlessly port these applications to FreeBSD. > Not that it is much more different, but I had problems compiling Abuse for wintel on my FBSD machine.... hmmm wonder why! j/k Please stop this crazy mail. Original poster, read the readme's as the site suggests when you cd to the directories, and realize what pwd you are in. When I d/l things for my sparc, I look at an archie return with something that has to do with a sparc. Not that this should always be the case, but get a bit of a CLUE! ` Tamer ZIady