From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 9 16:42:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id QAA02138 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 16:42:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from super-g.inch.com (super-g.com [204.178.32.161]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id QAA02128 for ; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 16:42:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (spork@localhost) by super-g.inch.com (8.8.4/8.6.9) with SMTP id TAA09864; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 19:54:26 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 19:54:26 -0500 (EST) From: spork X-Sender: spork@super-g.inch.com To: Doug White cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing from Ports collection In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk If it were only that easy... I was su-ed... Any other suggestions? Charles On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Doug White wrote: > 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 > >