Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 08:47:52 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: pjklist@ekahuna.com Cc: igorr@speechpro.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Am I forced to install Xfree86? Message-ID: <200111301647.fAUGlqd15442@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 30 Nov 2001 00:25:07 PST." <3C06D1E3.14504.211C039@localhost>
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> From: "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist@ekahuna.com> > Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 00:25:07 -0800 > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > On 30 Nov 2001, at 10:36, Igor Roboul boldly uttered: > > > On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 03:19:33PM -0800, Philip J. Koenig wrote: > > > All I did was cd to the port directory and type "make" and then "make > > > install". (the way it's supposed to work, AFAIK) I got no such > > Check /etc/make.conf and /etc/defaults/make.conf > > > On my RELENG_4 box which hasn't been cvsup'd in a few months, there > is no file "/etc/make.conf" This is a file YOU must create. By default, it's not there. > Regarding /etc/defaults/make.conf.. am I to assume that this file > should be customized and copied to /etc? No. This file should never be edited and copying it to /etc is unnecessary. What you need to do is look through it and see if there are any values you wish to have changed and enter these values into /etc/make.conf. The values in /etc/make.conf will over-ride those in /etc/defaults/make.conf. This is true for all of the files in /etc/defaults. > Furtheremore, if I were to uncomment "NO_X= true", what would have > happened when I went to install the mtr port, which wanted gtk as a > dependency? Would it automatically not fetch/compile XF86, or would > it do it anyway because gtk is a dependency? Aren't the settings in > make.conf just for building the base system? I'd have to look at the Makefile for mtr to see how it would handle this. Some tools still install without a GUI and others will fail to install, at all. > To further complicate matters, my main RELENG_4 box doesn't even > *have* gtk, yet it has mtr installed and working. (maybe I installed > it as a binary from the release disks... but then, why wouldn't it > have gtk if the port depends on it?) gtk is the GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Package) Tool Kit and is only relevant to a GUI interface. > I can't even find a manpage or other docs for "gtk" on the machine > that now has it installed. I'm sure there might be something in the > X11 or gnome directories that is some variation of "gtk", but are you > starting to see my point about what I'm going through just to install > a rudimentary command-line traceroute utility? gtk is not a part of the base system. Like mtr, it is a port that needs to be installed. (But, without X, you can't install it.) R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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