Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2002 12:36:58 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Installing XFree86 from source? Message-ID: <20020609123658.A18561@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <20020608165057.M502-100000@66-75-1-142.san.rr.com>; from Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com on Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 04:54:41PM -0700 References: <20020608165057.M502-100000@66-75-1-142.san.rr.com>
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On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 04:54:41PM -0700, Peter Leftwich wrote:
> Okay, the saga continues . . . after doing a "rm -rf" on both my /etc/X11
> and /usr/X11R6 directories, I went to www.xfree86.org and downloaded:
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 25961532 Jun 6 22:59:21 2002 X420src-1.tgz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 23227328 Jun 6 22:59:34 2002 X420src-2.tgz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 9306679 Jun 6 22:58:37 2002 X420src-3.tgz
>
> Later, when all three were gunzipped and untarred, I had a dir called:
>
> drwxr-xr-x 11 root wheel 512 Jun 7 22:52:23 2002 xc
>
> I am wary of just changing to that directory and typing "make all" or "make
> World" because, well, I don't know what I am doing. So here is my limited
> first question. How do I make sure the "make" knows about my OS?? Thanks,
Put the files tgz files you've downloaded in /usr/ports/distfiles/xc,
and then:
# cd /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4
# make
# make install
# make clean
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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