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Date:      Sat, 28 Feb 1998 15:48:25 -0600
From:      "Scot W. Hetzel" <hetzels@westbend.net>
To:        "Evren Yurtesen" <yurtesen@ispro.net.tr>
Cc:        "FreeBSD-Ports" <FreeBSD-Ports@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: hello
Message-ID:  <010b01bd4492$992e3c20$c3e0d9cf@admin.westbend.net>

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-----Original Message-----
From: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@ispro.net.tr>


>I have a little question
>I am sorry if I am so novice :(
>ok my problem is when I uncompress a port
>
>for ex.
>tar xvf pine.tar
>
>and then try to use make command
>I get this
>>> pine3.96.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist on this system.
>>> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/.
>
>yes that is ok but I have pine3.96.tar.gz in my computer
>in the directory where I issue make command...
>so what is wrong at I do?
>
The port collection looks in one place on you computer for downloaded src
files, it doesn't look in the directory where you unpacked the pine tar
file.  You need to place the file into the directory /usr/port/distfiles
(NOTE: You may have to create these two directories.

Scot


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