From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 9 23:09:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id XAA24430 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 23:09:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id XAA24425 for ; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 23:09:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.2/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA13260; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 23:09:17 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 23:09:16 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: spork 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 On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, spork wrote: > If it were only that easy... I was su-ed... Any other suggestions? What were the error messages reported when trying to install the man pages? That will help us track the problem. > > > 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