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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 20:40:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: "Erin L. Copeland" <erin@sam.math.ethz.ch>
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Subject: Re: Problem?
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On Tue, 27 Aug 1996, Erin L. Copeland wrote:

> This is an example of problems I have been having with "packages"
> downloaded from the following url:
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/ports/x11.html
> 
> Please note in advance that I have connected to your site with ftp as
> well, and have had the SAME problem with the "packages" I have found.
> 

[...]

> make: Fatal error in reader: Makefile, line 72: Unexpected end of line
> seen
> > emacs Makefile (removed line 72)
> > make
> cd /astrolog-5.20/src/..; \
>         for i in lrz5_24 chi_24 cpjv_24; do \
>                 zcat /$i.gz > \
>                         `echo $i | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]'`; \
>         done
> sh: /astrolog-5.20/src/..: bad directory
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `post-extract'
> 
> Really, adding the information from attempting make does not help,
> because I know very well that the dirs to be made are just NOT there
> when the file is unbundled.

Hm.  It's possible the package was truncated and needs to be rebuilt.  Try
emailing the maintainer (ache@freebsd.org) and inform him of the problem.
Make sure you are downloading in 'binary' mode too.  The packages are on
ftp.freebsd.org in /pub/FreeBSD/packages.  Astrolog is probably in
...../packages/x11/astrolog-*.tgz.

> Is this correct? Do these bundled "packages" (in this example,
> astrolog.tar.gz) not contain source code?

Yes.  The packages are pre-built binaries.  The ports build directly from
the source. 

> My first experience with this was about 2 weeks ago, from an attempt to
> get and install fvwm and the required xpm libs. 

I've had generally good experience with packages, with some notable
exceptions (such as xemacs).  

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major