From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 3 5:49:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 31E8E37B54C for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 05:49:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 22870 invoked by uid 211); 3 Apr 2000 12:49:00 -0000 Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 18:19:00 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: "Brian K . Walters" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Broken ports... (Re: w3m make craps out was Re: Lynx forbidden) Message-ID: <20000403181900.D22808@theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in> References: <20000403030401.A17364@theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in> <200004030132.SAA01795@earthlink.net> <20000403113111.A21411@theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in> <20000403023113.A7142@kagan.quedawg.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000403023113.A7142@kagan.quedawg.com>; from bkwalters@lucent.com on Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 02:31:13AM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Since I originally had that error message I updated the ports via cvsup from > the ports-supfile in /usr/share/examples/cvsup. I originally had the > default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4 which just seemed to delete everything in > the ports subdirectories so I did it again with the tag=. which the docs > said should just update to the latest files. > > I tried to make w3m again and got the same error message as before. Did I > do the ports update correctly? I'm a FreeBSD newbie so excuse my ignorance > regarding this. I'm very much of a newbie myself, so I don't know. I too have experienced problems with some ports. In some cases (eg pstoedit) I got around it by compiling with gcc 2.95 / g++ 2.95 instead of the stock version. In some cases it turned out that specifying a disable-nls config option broke the port (iirc, blowfish was an example). In other cases I never figured it out. You seem to be running 4.0 -- I'm running 3.4, could that be the problem? Is there some major change in 4.0 that this port does not handle properly? What can the other causes of non-working ports be? I'm interested in knowing. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message