Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 19:54:26 -0500 (EST) From: spork <spork@super-g.com> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing from Ports collection Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970109195340.4261C-100000@super-g.inch.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970109155457.12767E-100000@localhost>
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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 > >
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