From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 20 23:12:38 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC5D6106568D for ; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:12:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from af.gourmet@videotron.ca) Received: from relais.videotron.ca (relais.videotron.ca [24.201.245.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7E088FC16 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:12:38 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Received: from [192.168.0.51] ([96.21.103.185]) by VL-MO-MR003.ip.videotron.ca (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-4.01 (built Aug 3 2007; 32bit)) with ESMTP id <0KOP002VP751K290@VL-MO-MR003.ip.videotron.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:12:37 -0400 (EDT) Message-id: <4A8DD867.9020604@videotron.ca> Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:12:39 -0400 From: PJ User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: installation sequence X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:12:38 -0000 Does anybody have an idea of what the oder of files and dependencies is to install programs without all sorts of nonsensical errors? I usually have no problem installing FreeBsd whatever with apache22, cups, samba, php, mysql xorg etc. etc. I say usually because from time to time there do crop up some conflicts and they can usually be resolved by just looking at the error messages when the install is interrupted... usually one reinstalls the guilty port and voila! all things are in an ordered universe! But how do you avoid those error messages... I installed a pretty minimal 7.2 about a week ago and since then have been putzing about with a more serious installation of 7.2 on a larger disk to include xorg and a number of pretty cumbersome applications. I usually start with samba as that permits me to wander about on my lan and download and play around with other stuff while I am waiting for those substantial installs like jdk and xorg et al. So now, I have installed samba... works fine... thereafter I have been installing jdk16 and some other proggies like openldap and php5 and mysql ... actually, I was doing those because apache22 wouldn't compile... it grinds out a slew of errors that all seem to be related to ldap..."util_ldap.c:2135 (or other numbers) and all have the notation "undeclared (first use in this function) and finally the ghost gives up with Error code 1. Exactly the same installation with the same configuration on the smaller installation went without a hitch... (and on the same computer, different disk) The versions are the latest available and on 7.2... I have tried uninstalling php5, openldap, and removing the work directory for apache22, but the result is always the same... this is absurd. Can anybody make any sense of this... I don't like the idea of starting all over again... done that, been there, and still looking for some rationality to this world. Thanks for any ideas...