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Date:      Thu, 9 Jan 1997 15:55:13 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        spork <spork@super-g.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Installing from Ports collection
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.970109155457.12767E-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970109161441.4261A-100000@super-g.inch.com>

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On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, spork wrote:

> Not sure if I have asked this already, but I've found that on all of my
> 2.1.6-RELEASE machines, "make install" of any port fails when trying to
> install the man pages.  I assume this has something to do with the macro
> called by make for the port install procedure, but I'm really no good with
> make and worse at macros.  It looks as if it's trying to grab the pages
> from /usr/local/ somewhere.  Has anyone else seen this??  Some examples
> include the port of gnuplot, ssh, lsof...  And if not, where is the macro
> called during the install so I can nose through it and try and correct it?

You'll want to run 'make install' as root.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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