From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Aug 11 20:24:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA27570 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 11 Aug 1996 20:24:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA27563 for ; Sun, 11 Aug 1996 20:24:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id NAA13913; Mon, 12 Aug 1996 13:10:10 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199608120340.NAA13913@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Building ports and packages? To: karl@Mcs.Net (Karl Denninger) Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 13:10:09 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, karl@Mcs.Net, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199608120313.WAA09821@Jupiter.mcs.net> from "Karl Denninger" at Aug 11, 96 10:13:12 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Karl Denninger stands accused of saying: > > > Is the -current system you're working with a -SNAP virgin install, or > > did you upgrade over an older (2.0.5, 2.1 etc.) release? > > Its a virgin install off a RELEASE I built from -CURRENT. Nothing special > about it. Can you be more specific about exactly what fails when you try building stuff? Are you getting makefile breakdown, checksum failures, or compile failures? Which /usr/share/mk/bsd.port.mk do you have? Latest is $Id: bsd.port.mk,v 1.218 1996/08/07 08:25:08 asami Exp $ $Id: bsd.port.subdir.mk,v 1.14 1996/04/09 22:54:13 wosch Exp $ > > Is there a pattern to these failures? Satoshi (ports-meister) builds them > > on -current regularly as a verification. From whence are you supping them? > > One thing I have figured out -- I didn't have X11 on there, and that blows > up anything X related. Can that be fixed without reinstalling the entire > machine? (ie: can I load the X11 release?) Yup. You can either bring up sysinstall and just install the X11 stuff (custom/distributions/custom/XFree86, point it at an FTP server with the XFree dists on it), or you can just unpack the relevant tarballs by hand; they're all rooted at /usr, and described in the docco that comes with them from the XFree people. > Karl Denninger (karl@MCS.Net)| MCSNet - The Finest Internet Connectivity -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[