From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Jul 10 22:08:38 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31C86997320 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2015 22:08:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wam@hiwaay.net) Received: from fly.hiwaay.net (fly.hiwaay.net [216.180.54.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D304481A for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2015 22:08:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wam@hiwaay.net) Received: from kabini1.local (dynamic-207-98-175-216.knology.net [207.98.175.216] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by fly.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/fly) with ESMTP id t6AM8PqU017047 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2015 17:08:28 -0500 Message-ID: <55A0424F.5070705@hiwaay.net> Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 17:14:30 -0453 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Users Subject: Re: Building TB from source code References: <55A03950.6090209@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <55A03950.6090209@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 22:08:38 -0000 On 07/10/15 16:36, jd1008 wrote: > Has anyone been successful in building it from source code? > Last time I tried, build failed because it required versions > of packages that were of much older vintage than what was installed. > Too many for me to recall. > > Need helpful hints, how-to's to accomplish this. > > I posted the same question to Fedora list and it has been > so totally ignored, that I find it very interesting. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Why do you want to build it from source ? I did that w/ Iceweb (sp?) last August when I was trying to get this box running, took 5+ hours. 2 weeks later did a pkg upgrade, took 30 sec. .... I've been on pkg ever since (except for flash support, but no problema w/ that). -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.