From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 7 21:08:34 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA12525 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 21:08:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail0.atl.bellsouth.net (sgi-b.bellsouth.net [205.152.0.27] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA12515 for ; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 21:08:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wghicks@bellsouth.net) Received: from wghicks.bellsouth.net (host-216-76-138-167.ath.bellsouth.net [216.76.138.167]) by mail0.atl.bellsouth.net (8.8.8-spamdog/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA07523; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 00:07:59 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wghicks.bellsouth.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id AAA03082; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 00:25:12 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net) To: grios@netshell.vicosa.com.br Cc: steve@emmert.com, wghicks@bellsouth.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd@br.freebsd.org Subject: Re: WindowMaker In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 06 Feb 1999 00:25:24 -0200" <36BBA814.BAEBE73@netshell.vicosa.com.br> References: <36BBA814.BAEBE73@netshell.vicosa.com.br> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.93 on XEmacs 20.4 (Emerald) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <19990208002512C.wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net> Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 00:25:12 -0500 From: W Gerald Hicks X-Dispatcher: imput version 980905(IM100) Lines: 42 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From: Gustavo Vieira G C Rios Subject: Re: WindowMaker Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 00:25:24 -0200 > Is there any one smart enough here that got WindowMaker working without > using the ports ? *OWW* That hurt! Why'd ya thump me on the head? :-) Of course. I used to do this for every new patch from Alfredo I have *always* used a locally modified port to start from. This port has been very well maintained for some time, although it has suffered a bit in the commit queue. The ports committers are very busy people you know... It's pretty bad form, IMHO, to install a lot of unported software on a FreeBSD system. It's really not that difficult to implement a new port and it helps you be able to rapidly reconstruct your system if necessary. I'd even go so far as to recommend using the ports facility for locally written (and private) applications. > i am trying to buil it, but without success !!!! > when i configure (./configure) my windowmaker it returns me that i don't > have libPropList installed (that's not true, i just installed it)! > How to get it running ? I'd be very surprised if our ever diligent WindowMaker port maintainer, Brian Handy, didn't already have this worked out too. I see Steve's suggestion seems to have been effective for someone else. I'll wait for the port though. It won't be long. Cheers, Jerry Hicks wghicks@bellsouth.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message