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Date:      Mon, 24 Apr 2000 11:09:27 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Steven G. Kargl" <kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Cc:        s0lanine <admin@cyrebels.org>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: a port installation causes some problems... HELP!
Message-ID:  <200004241809.LAA39733@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20000424113043.B24816@fw.wintelcom.net> from Alfred Perlstein at "Apr 24, 2000 11:30:44 am"

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Alfred Perlstein said:
> * s0lanine <admin@cyrebels.org> [000424 11:08] wrote:
> > 
> >     Today i tried to install editors/nedit from the ports collection,
> > but it says:
> > 
> > ===>  nedit-5.0.2 requires Motif. LessTif is an LGPL implementation of
> > the Motif API. A port is available in ports/x11-toolkits/lesstif. Please
> > see /etc/make.conf
> > 
> >     So i went in x11-toolkits/lesstif and installed the lesstif port, it
> > installed correctly, so i got back to editors/nedit, typed make install,
> > and got the exact SAME error that said i needed motif blah blah blah...
> > what the hell?
> > 

You didn't following the instructions at the end of the installation
of lesstif!

> ? d1) the lesstif port should query the user to actually add HAVE_MOTIF
>      to /etc/make.conf
>   -or-
>   d2) the lefftif port ought to inform the user to do so himself.
> 

troutmask:kargl[214] pwd
/usr/ports/x11-toolkits/lesstif
troutmask:kargl[215] tail -5 Makefile
.endif
        ${SETENV} OBJFORMAT=${PORTOBJFORMAT} ${LDCONFIG} -m ${PREFIX}/lib
        @${CAT} ${PKGMESSAGE}

.include <bsd.port.mk>
troutmask:kargl[216] cat pkg/MESSAGE 

Make sure to set HAVE_MOTIF=yes in /etc/make.conf


-- 
Steve


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