From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 1 15:00:25 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 42B8910656C1 for ; Thu, 1 Oct 2009 15:00:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from roberthuff@rcn.com) Received: from smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net (smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net [207.172.157.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 023F88FC27 for ; Thu, 1 Oct 2009 15:00:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mr02.lnh.mail.rcn.net ([207.172.157.22]) by smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net with ESMTP; 01 Oct 2009 11:00:23 -0400 Received: from smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net (smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.11]) by mr02.lnh.mail.rcn.net (MOS 3.10.7-GA) with ESMTP id QFG70461; Thu, 1 Oct 2009 11:00:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 209-6-22-227.c3-0.smr-ubr1.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com (HELO jerusalem.litteratus.org.litteratus.org) ([209.6.22.227]) by smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net with ESMTP; 01 Oct 2009 11:00:18 -0400 From: Robert Huff MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <19140.50178.53068.254287@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 11:00:18 -0400 To: "David Southwell" In-Reply-To: <529486569750436B97C259AC2D363D7F@sleuth64> References: <20091001140724.GA27416@brisbane.nepharia.org> <4EDA11A6F5CE4422A7BE01EE571C58DA@sleuth64> <529486569750436B97C259AC2D363D7F@sleuth64> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.5 (beta28) "fuki" XEmacs Lucid X-Junkmail-Whitelist: YES (by domain whitelist at mr02.lnh.mail.rcn.net) Cc: 'Mak Kolybabi' , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Looking up libraries and header files 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, 01 Oct 2009 15:00:25 -0000 David Southwell writes: > One problem > > How about ports that are not installed? > > Is there another route that will deal with stuff not on the system? I'm not quite sure what you're asking here; perhaps you could give a scenario? The above methods only work for things that are properly installed/registered with the ports(/packages) system. If you've installed something not from a port ... you're on your own. Robert Huff