From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 14 10: 1: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nmail.devrycols.edu (nmail.devrycols.edu [199.218.238.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C67A2157F9 for ; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 10:00:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jm7996@devrycols.edu) Received: from cis059 [131.187.253.210] by nmail.devrycols.edu (SMTPD32-4.07) id A91F992014A; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 12:58:07 EST Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990414125718.007b3620@devrycols.edu> X-Sender: jm7996@devrycols.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 12:57:18 -0400 To: tbrock@mail.phoenix.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "James A. Mutter" Subject: Re: Compiling non ports. Libraries etc. In-Reply-To: <99041410240600.00559@fdho-w5.fdnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 10:12 AM 4/14/99 -0500, Tony wrote: I've run into this problem before, my solution (not always successful) has been to check a port Makefile for a similiar application. e.g. trying to build Balsa for GNOME, I checked and copied/exported the Makefile environment from an earlier version of the application. Not always successful, but a start. Additionally, and probably a better way to do it would be to supply the additional arguments to configure. Usually ./configure --help will tell you how to add additional paths/etc... Good luck... >Here's the basics. >cvsup'ed 3.1-Stable system. >Everything I have installed is ported. >No problems whatsoever except... > >For several weeks now I have been trying to understand why applications not >located in the ports tree that I try to build refuse to locate libraries I have >installed. For instance while trying to compile WebMaker for KDE, the >configure complains that it cannot find libraries like kimgio, libpng, libjpeg >etc. It's driving me absolutely up the wall. I've searched every mailing list >I could find. I've searched the gnats databases, I've even tried asking on the >IRC #freebsd channel (Which by the way is NOT a good place to ask questions of To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message