From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Dec 4 11:28:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f247.law3.hotmail.com [209.185.241.247]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 44C0615062 for ; Sat, 4 Dec 1999 11:28:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from xy127@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 28981 invoked by uid 0); 4 Dec 1999 19:28:08 -0000 Message-ID: <19991204192808.28980.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 130.207.226.69 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Sat, 04 Dec 1999 11:28:08 PST X-Originating-IP: [130.207.226.69] From: "xy 127" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: making a port?? Date: Sat, 04 Dec 1999 14:28:08 EST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hey, I'm running FreeBSD 3.3 on a HP Pavilioin with a pentium-300 MHz. My question is regarding building a port. Since I've installed FreeBSD this is the first port I tried to build and it failed. I downloaded cdrecord.tar.gz from the FreeBSD Ports collection and extracted it and typed ``make'' and here's the error I got: bash-2.03$ make "/usr/share/mk/bsd.port.mk", line 2: Could not find /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue bash-2.03$ bash-2.03$ more /usr/share/mk/bsd.port.mk PORTSDIR?= /usr/ports .include "${PORTSDIR}/Mk/bsd.port.mk" bash-2.03$ My /usr/ports directory is empty. Where can I get /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk??? Also why is it when I extract cdrecord.tar.gz with `tar zxvf cdrecord.tar.gz` it puts the files in pub/FreeBSD/branches/-current/ports/sysutils/?? Why doesn't it just extract the files you need, whats the deal with all the extra dirs? Please send replys to my email address, because I do not subscribe to the mailing list. Thanks. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message