From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 16 08:04:20 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFAE816A4B3 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 2003 08:04:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nelson.bignose.ca (hlfx04-2690.ns.aliant.net [156.34.42.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63A6943F3F for ; Tue, 16 Sep 2003 08:04:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from info@bignose.ca) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nelson.bignose.ca (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h8GF42cB001071; Tue, 16 Sep 2003 12:04:02 -0300 (ADT) (envelope-from info@bignose.ca) From: Jeff MacDonald To: Kris Kennaway In-Reply-To: <20030915184606.GA6885@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <1063579092.40746.2.camel@nelson> <20030915184606.GA6885@rot13.obsecurity.org> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1063724641.744.1.camel@nelson> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.4 Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 12:04:01 -0300 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /usr/src/usr.sbin/pkg_install X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 15:04:20 -0000 Fair enough, I did a complete make buildworld/installworld, and I still cannot use my ports properly, any other suggestions ? This is not a mission critical install, so i could just re-install as i see a few ppl on the mailing lists have done, but i would rather not have to do this. Jeff. On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 15:46, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 07:38:13PM -0300, Jeff MacDonald wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've been having a problem latly, where when I try to install any port > > it says "checking to see if port _x_ is installed" then the make dies. > > > > I've looked into the make files a bit, and saw a "do-install" so i tried > > make do-install and it works some times. > > > > Anyways.. I'm running 5.1 i ran my stable-supfile and went into > > /usr/src/usr.sbin/pkg_install and did a make, only to get this error.. > > > > http://www.bignose.ca/~bignose/make.txt > > > > If anyone has any help, that would be great, I'm not a c guy, so hunting > > down this error would not get me too far. > > The supported way to rebuild your system involves 'make world', not > piecewise rebuilds. In general, if you know what you're doing you can > compile things piecewise, but if you don't you should follow the > rebuild procedure documented in the FreeBSD handbook. > > Kris