From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 30 15:34: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from empty1.ekahuna.com (empty1.ekahuna.com [198.144.200.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE5A737B43C for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 15:33:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from pc-02 (pc02.ekahuna.com [198.144.200.197]) by empty1.ekahuna.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-0U10L2S100V35) with ESMTP id com; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 15:33:41 -0800 From: "Philip J. Koenig" Organization: The Electric Kahuna Organization To: Erik Trulsson Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 15:33:45 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Am I forced to install Xfree86? Reply-To: pjklist@ekahuna.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <3C07A6D9.23680.642BE2@localhost> In-reply-to: <20011130232502.GA32332@student.uu.se> References: <3C079707.26404.265FFB@localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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: cd /usr/ports/net/mtr make 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