From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Nov 25 17:27:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA08509 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 17:27:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA08492 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 17:26:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA20217; Thu, 26 Nov 1998 11:56:26 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id LAA14403; Thu, 26 Nov 1998 11:56:25 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981126115625.K67961@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 11:56:25 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Sue Blake , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree88-contrib install? References: <19981126115959.31848@welearn.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <19981126115959.31848@welearn.com.au>; from Sue Blake on Thu, Nov 26, 1998 at 11:59:59AM +1100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thursday, 26 November 1998 at 11:59:59 +1100, Sue Blake wrote: > Could someone bring me up to speed on how XFree86-contrib gets installed? > I think it's available as a port but not a package. Is it also an option > when XFree is chosen during FreeBSD installation, or do most newbies get it > automatically? Strange, another person round your way just asked me that question. It's not a port, it's the original XFree86 source tree for contrib. Here's what I told him: > OK. This is an archive of /usr/X11R6/contrib. You need to do the > following things: > > 1. Unpack the archive into /usr/X11R6/contrib > 2. cd /usr/X11R6/contrib > xmkmf > make Makefiles depend all install Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message