From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Nov 25 18:12:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA12661 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 18:12:42 -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 SAA12654 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 18:12:37 -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 MAA20388; Thu, 26 Nov 1998 12:42:19 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id MAA14522; Thu, 26 Nov 1998 12:42:19 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981126124218.P67961@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 12:42:18 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Steve Price Cc: Sue Blake , FreeBSD-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree88-contrib install? References: <19981126115625.K67961@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Steve Price on Wed, Nov 25, 1998 at 07:54:51PM -0600 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 Wednesday, 25 November 1998 at 19:54:51 -0600, Steve Price wrote: > On Thu, 26 Nov 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> 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 > > 'ports/x11/XFree86-contrib' isn't what you are looking for? Well, no, if I had looked for it, I would have found it :-) But it looks like I *should* have been looking for it. > If it is, then all you have to do is a 'make install' in that > directory. Thanks 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