From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 8 17:37:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [210.54.19.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EFC237B405 for ; Sat, 8 Jun 2002 17:37:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grimoire.chen.org.nz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chen.org.nz (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g590axNg018596; Sun, 9 Jun 2002 12:36:59 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc@grimoire.chen.org.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by grimoire.chen.org.nz (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g590awL9018595; Sun, 9 Jun 2002 12:36:58 +1200 (NZST) Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2002 12:36:58 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Peter Leftwich Cc: FreeBSD Questions LIST Subject: Re: Installing XFree86 from source? Message-ID: <20020609123658.A18561@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <20020608165057.M502-100000@66-75-1-142.san.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i 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 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- When you don't know what you are doing, do it neatly. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message