From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 22 20:23:19 2003 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 58A3216A4CE for ; Sat, 22 Nov 2003 20:23:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5521643FE0 for ; Sat, 22 Nov 2003 20:23:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paulbeard@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin07-en2 [10.13.10.152]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id hAN4NGJT009636; Sat, 22 Nov 2003 20:23:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.8] (12-231-115-57.client.attbi.com [12.231.115.57]) (authenticated bits=0) by mac.com (Xserve/smtpin07/MantshX 3.0) with ESMTP id hAN4NFPd008867; Sat, 22 Nov 2003 20:23:16 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1069560047.10597.18.camel@localhost> References: <1069560047.10597.18.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v606) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: paul beard Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 20:23:13 -0800 To: Patrick Burnett X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.606) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make vs. pkg_add 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, 23 Nov 2003 04:23:19 -0000 On Nov 22, 2003, at 8:00 PM, Patrick Burnett wrote: > I'm probably doing something wrong > such that 'make' isn't playing nice, but I'd still appreciate some > further insight from more experienced users. > Perhaps you could explain more about what difficulties you're having. I have used both pkg_add and make install clean interchangeably, though I prefer working from source. -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com