From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 1 18:45:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.greatbasin.net (mail.greatbasin.net [207.228.35.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 656CE15450 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 18:45:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@jgl.reno.nv.us) Received: from pandora.home (jgl.reno.nv.us [207.228.2.142]) by mail.greatbasin.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA29189; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 18:45:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from danco (danco.home [10.0.0.2]) by pandora.home (8.9.2/8.9.2) with SMTP id SAA19069; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 18:45:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@jgl.reno.nv.us) Message-ID: <018801be6456$b8c780c0$0200000a@danco.home> From: "Dan O'Connor" To: "David Gray" , "freebsd-questions" Subject: Re: XFree86-3.3.3.1 port breaks Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 18:45:22 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Gray wrote: >Basically, I can't build XFree86. The makefile breaks when it tries to >apply the patches to the source distribution. The output from make is >appended to this mail. > >I run 3.1-stable, about 2 weeks old, and have an up-to-date ports tree. I've found that the easiest way to install/upgrade XFree86 is with the binary distribution available from ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/3.3.3.1/binaries/Free-BSD-3.0/. See section 7 of the release notes (ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/3.3.3.1/binaries/FreeBSD-3.0/RELNOTES) for simple step-by-step instructions and a list of the files you need to download. Once you have the distfiles you need, it's merely a matter of running three script files and then the graphical setup utility: # md /usr/X11R6 # cd /usr/X11R6 # sh /preinst.sh # /extract /X*.tgz # sh postinst.sh # XF86Setup To get FreeBSD's ports to recognize that you've installed X, create the directory /var/db/pkg/XFree86-3.3.3.1 Good luck! --Dan ** The thing I like most about Windows 98 is... ** You can download FreeBSD with it! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message