From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Oct 22 20:34:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from robin.mail.pas.earthlink.net (robin.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B35BD37B405 for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 20:34:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sdn-ar-003dcwashp290.dialsprint.net ([206.133.15.156] helo=moo.holy.cow) by robin.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15vsKI-0007iX-00; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 20:34:07 -0700 Received: by moo.holy.cow (Postfix, from userid 1001) id A601450CF1; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 23:34:23 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 23:34:23 -0400 From: parv To: f-ports Cc: mb@imp.ch Subject: startoffice52 - why's there a need to enable linproc before "make fetch"? Message-ID: <20011022233423.A73564@moo.holy.cow> Mail-Followup-To: f-ports , mb@imp.ch Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org so i tried to install staroffice52, by first fetching it. to my annoying surprise i was presented w/ this message... # script -a log make fetch Script started, output file is log ===> staroffice-5.2 depends on file: /compat/linux/lib/libc.so.6 - found ----------------------------------------------------------- Staroffice setup needs a running linprocfs, which is not activated on your system. Please read the linprocfs(5) manpage and add the following line to /etc/fstab: linproc /compat/linux/proc linprocfs rw 0 0 ----------------------------------------------------------- *** Error code 1 ... i can understand the need for linproc for configure and later process, but why for fetch? what does linproc has to do w/ the fetching of a file? waiting to be enlightened... - parv -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message