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Date:      Mon, 22 Feb 1999 08:50:51 -0500 (EST)
From:      Dennis Ostrovsky <denis.ostrovsky@yale.edu>
To:        Emmanuel Gravel <chemtechweb@psn.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Installing XFree86 3.3.3.1 on FreeBSD 3.1
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.05.9902220849230.16008-100000@mercury.cis.yale.edu>
In-Reply-To: <36D10480.9C816B00@psn.net>

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On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Emmanuel Gravel wrote:

> I've recently upgraded from 2.2.7 to 3.1 stable and upgraded my ports
> collection.  I tried upgrading XFree86 to the latest version to
> be as close as possible to a fully elf system (doing it one step
> at a time).  I've done a make in the ports dir, and it downloaded
> the three necessary files (src-1, src-2 and the patches to 3.3.3.1).
> The make went without a problem.  However, when I tried a make install,
> it stopped with error code 1.  Here's a snippet:

I had the exact same problem when I tried to upgrade X from the source
once. I had tk/tcl installed, and I re-installed them and it still didn't
work. I eventually just upgraded from the binary distribution, which works
flawlessly and is also a hell of a lot faster than compiling everything.

Dennis

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    Dennis Ostrovsky ** Department of Chemistry ** Yale University  

E-mail: den@master.chem.yale.edu     WWW: http://pantheon.yale.edu/~do33     
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