From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 23 21:38:15 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F02616A4CE for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2003 21:38:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp017.mail.yahoo.com (smtp017.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.174.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6806743FE9 for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2003 21:38:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ecrist@adtechintegrated.com) Received: from c-66-41-18-160.mn.client2.attbi.com (HELO 192.168.1.106) (mnslinky@66.41.18.160 with plain) by smtp-v1.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 23 Nov 2003 04:38:14 -0000 From: Eric F Crist Organization: AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc To: Patrick Burnett , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 22:36:25 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <1069560047.10597.18.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1069560047.10597.18.camel@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200311222236.26654.ecrist@adtechintegrated.com> Subject: Re: make vs. pkg_add X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 05:38:15 -0000 On Saturday 22 November 2003 10:00 pm, Patrick Burnett wrote: > Hi all, > > Not that I expect to be swayed one way or the other here, but... > > I'm curious to see what other users think of using either the 'make' > commands or 'pkg_add' for compiling and installing software. I'm > admittedly a bit of a newbie, and I've tried it both ways, after > CVSup-ing the source and ports of course. In most cases 'pkg_add' seems > to work better, but the problem solver in me wants to see 'make all > install clean' and its brethren work at least once. Am I to understand > that 'make' and its accompanying command options will download source, > dependencies, needed libs, et al. while compiling, building, and > installing just like 'pkg_add' does? I'm probably doing something wrong > such that 'make' isn't playing nice, but I'd still appreciate some > further insight from more experienced users. > > TIA, > Pat > _______________________________________________ > 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" Pat, I've always been one to use the make install method. It's always worked for me, including downloading most sources and dependencies. Sometimes, after upgrading from 4.9 to 5.0, for example, I had to install certain things manually, from ports, such as GTK+ and gettext. HTH -- Eric F Crist President AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc