Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 15:33:45 -0800 From: "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist@ekahuna.com> To: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Am I forced to install Xfree86? Message-ID: <3C07A6D9.23680.642BE2@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20011130232502.GA32332@student.uu.se> References: <3C079707.26404.265FFB@localhost>
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On 1 Dec 2001, at 0:25, Erik Trulsson boldly uttered: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 02:26:15PM -0800, Philip J. Koenig wrote: > > On 30 Nov 2001, at 12:27, Erik Trulsson boldly uttered: > > > > > > Then don't bother about it. > > > Ports using WANT_xxx mean: > > > " If xxx is installed it will be used, otherwise we will get by > > > witout it." > > > > > > That's contrary to my experience. In the described case, the action > > was more like "If xxx is installed it will be used, otherwise WE WILL > > RETRIEVE AND INSTALL IT." See below. > > That is the way it works for me anyway, and that is the way it is > supposed to work AFAIK. [snip] > > > For mtr, if you do not have X or GTK installed it is not supposed to > > > fetch and build it. As far as I can determine from looking at the port > > > it doesn't do that either unless you have changed something. > > > > > > I DID NOT change anything. This is a brand-new 4.4-RELEASE install. > > One of the very first things I did after rebooting the machine post- > > install was to install the mtr port. I didn't change any port > > settings, compile settings, or make settings. > > Then something is wrong somewhere. > Just to check I tried building net/mtr on one of my machines which do > *not* have X or GTK installed. Neither of them was fetched or > installed. > > My guess is that the error is at > your end. *Exactly* what did you do when you tried to install mtr ? OK, that's easy: login: root password: <whatever> cd /usr/ports/net/mtr make <stuff happens, X is downloaded/installed, etc> make install FYI: I did not do a "standard" install with pre-set distributions. I did a custom install selecting the stuff I wanted (which did not include X), then installed binary packages of things that I wanted that weren't in the standard distributions, and then after the install went to install the mtr port. -- Philip J. Koenig pjklist@ekahuna.com Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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