Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 11:09:27 -0700 (PDT) From: "Steven G. Kargl" <kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: s0lanine <admin@cyrebels.org>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: a port installation causes some problems... HELP! Message-ID: <200004241809.LAA39733@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20000424113043.B24816@fw.wintelcom.net> from Alfred Perlstein at "Apr 24, 2000 11:30:44 am"
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Alfred Perlstein said:
> * s0lanine <admin@cyrebels.org> [000424 11:08] wrote:
> >
> > Today i tried to install editors/nedit from the ports collection,
> > but it says:
> >
> > ===> nedit-5.0.2 requires Motif. LessTif is an LGPL implementation of
> > the Motif API. A port is available in ports/x11-toolkits/lesstif. Please
> > see /etc/make.conf
> >
> > So i went in x11-toolkits/lesstif and installed the lesstif port, it
> > installed correctly, so i got back to editors/nedit, typed make install,
> > and got the exact SAME error that said i needed motif blah blah blah...
> > what the hell?
> >
You didn't following the instructions at the end of the installation
of lesstif!
> ? d1) the lesstif port should query the user to actually add HAVE_MOTIF
> to /etc/make.conf
> -or-
> d2) the lefftif port ought to inform the user to do so himself.
>
troutmask:kargl[214] pwd
/usr/ports/x11-toolkits/lesstif
troutmask:kargl[215] tail -5 Makefile
.endif
${SETENV} OBJFORMAT=${PORTOBJFORMAT} ${LDCONFIG} -m ${PREFIX}/lib
@${CAT} ${PKGMESSAGE}
.include <bsd.port.mk>
troutmask:kargl[216] cat pkg/MESSAGE
Make sure to set HAVE_MOTIF=yes in /etc/make.conf
--
Steve
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