From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Jan 12 00:40:57 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA17033 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 00:40:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from DegNet.de (degnet.de [194.95.214.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA16992 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 00:40:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from malte.lance@gmx.net) Received: from neuron.webmore.prv (GateWay [192.168.168.1]) by DegNet.de (8.8.8/8.8.8/Debian/GNU) with ESMTP id JAA28637 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 09:39:37 +0100 Received: from neuron.webmore.prv (neuron.webmore.prv "Malte Lance") by neuron.webmore.prv (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA09890; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 08:55:28 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <199901120755.IAA09890@neuron.webmore.prv> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 08:55:26 +0100 (CET) From: Malte Lance Reply-To: malte.lance@gmx.net Subject: Re: Port Make Problem - could not find bsd.port.pre.mk To: grog@lemis.com cc: tthoele@UTILITIES.TAMU.EDU, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19990112115639.Q8886@freebie.lemis.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 12 Jan, Greg Lehey wrote: > [Format recovered at freebie.lemis.com] > > On Monday, 11 January 1999 at 18:40:12 -0600, Troy Thoele wrote: >> Greetings Group - >> >> I am new to FreeBSD, and have been working on a new install of >> version 3 current. >> Every time I try to install some packages, I get the error 'could >> not find bsd.port.pre.mk' and could not find bsd.port.post.mk'. >> >> Where are these files located, and how do I fix this? > > They *should* be located in /usr/share/mk. It looks like you're > missing them, which suggests to me that you've upgraded from an > earlier version: they're relatively new files. If you really don't > have them locally, you might be able to find them somewhere on > ftp.FreeBSD.org. Troy, take a look at http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ Malte. > > Greg > -- -- Malte Lance. --- composed with TkRat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message