Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 13:15:12 +1000 From: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> To: Chris Kaiser <kaiserc@fltg.net> Cc: "freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Can't Make Message-ID: <19980620131512.26098@welearn.com.au> In-Reply-To: <358A900E.E71DCEC7@fltg.net>; from Chris Kaiser on Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 12:21:34PM -0400 References: <358A900E.E71DCEC7@fltg.net>
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On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 12:21:34PM -0400, Chris Kaiser wrote: > I have been trying to compile ports. I have written to Greg Lehey > (trying to use his CFBSD) and Walnut Creek with out result. You don't mention having written to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, which is the usual place to get this kind of help. http://www.welearn.com.au/freebsd/newbies/ is the first thing you should read at this stage. > I've tried doing this creating sym-links. I've tried this according > the handbook (p25), Complete FREBSD (p96), and his ever growing errata > since the book was wrong. All books are "wrong". This one happens to have a mechanism to get any bugs removed and is constantly updated as the world changes. If you prefer books which hide their bugs and have no way of being updated, there's plenty of them out there. > I get the same error everytime. > As an example; xinvaders > > make install (from the xinvaders directory) Below you show suggestions of a few things you could check in order to address your problem. Maybe you're not sure what the error messages are trying to tell you? > /usr/ports/distfiles//xinvaders.tar.gz is a broken symlink Did you look at it to see if that's true? You didn't say so. > Perhaps a file system (most likely CD) isn't mounted? Well, is it mounted? You didn't say so. > Please correct problem. > Error code 1 This is not the right place to discuss your problem and its solution. FreeBSD-Newbies is just for discussion, not help. You will have to write to freebsd-questions, but you will have trouble getting an answer unless you state your problem clearly and dispassionately and show that you have taken some steps to find out what's going on. If you don't understand the error message or how to follow on from there, then that is your only problem for now. You can post the error message to freebsd-questions, tell them you're new and ask "Could someone help me understand what I need to check, and how?". That will get a much more helpful response than a complaint that "it" didn't work. The help you can get from freebsd-questions is very good, but remember that, being volunteers, they help because they enjoy helping, and they continue to do so for just as long as they enjoy it. If you have some steam to let of let it off here with us, where there's nobody who you might want to be nice to you :-) > The only way I can install anything is by using pkg_add from the > packages directory. Actually, that's what we mostly do. If there's a package, why not take the easy way? :-) -- Regards, -*Sue*- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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