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Subject: Re: Installing from Ports collection
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During "make install" I get:

/usr/local/"name of manpage" not found

and then the "STOP's" from make...

Charles


On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Doug White wrote:

> 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
> 
>