From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 28 19:03:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA04683 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 28 Dec 1998 19:03:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from as5200-01-254.no.neosoft.com (as5200-01-254.no.neosoft.com [206.27.167.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA04673 for ; Mon, 28 Dec 1998 19:03:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from conrads@as5200-01-254.no.neosoft.com) Received: (from conrads@localhost) by as5200-01-254.no.neosoft.com (8.9.1/8.8.7) id VAA02465; Mon, 28 Dec 1998 21:02:13 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from conrads) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199812282349.PAA13909@hub.freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 21:02:13 -0600 (CST) Reply-To: conrads@neosoft.com From: Conrad Sabatier To: Stan Brown Subject: Re: Ports question Cc: (Free BSD Questions list) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 28-Dec-98 Stan Brown wrote: > Is there aw way to make a given port go ahead, and downlaod any > others that it depends on, and build them first? I would have sworn > that the ports system sued to do this, but it doesn;t seem to be > doing it on my system at the moment. Very strange. I have no idea why this would be happening. > Also what about ports that may not be _required_, but may be used if > present, as in the Xaw3d widget set for the siag pory? Assuming you have Xaw3d installed, and would like to build another port using it instead of the standard Xaw, you have a bit of work to do. First, do a 'make configure' on the port. This will perform all the steps up to, but not including, actually building the port. Then you'll need to cd into the port's ${WRKSRC} directory and tinker with the Makefiles, config.h files and so forth, substituting Xaw3d for Xaw. Then cd back to the port's main directory and make it. Not terribly difficult, really. -- Conrad Sabatier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message