Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 17:44:20 -0400 From: Murray Patterson <039320p@acadiau.ca> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: a few questions about ports Message-ID: <1074721460.400ef2b452e09@webmail.acadiau.ca>
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Hi, I'm trying to get octave, scilab and emacs working for my machine. I first got them from their respective sites and tried to compile and install them for my system, with no success. Then I tried the ports for these: /usr/ports/ math/octave, /usr/ports/math/scilab, and /usr/ports/editors/emacs to see if that would work (not expecting any success), and these failed. So I guess the first question is: Why did the 5.2 iso's include those ports to begin with, when they don't work (I chose to get the ports collection from CD when I installed from CD)? So anyway, I then looked around the freebsd site for ports and came upon: ftp://ftp1.us.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-5.2-release/ and sure enough the ports math/octave, math/scilab, editor/emacs don't exist. So I'm guessing that becuase this ftp site will always contain the most up-to-date ports for the amd64 architecture (am I right?), then I should just keep looking here to see if a port for any of these programs exists in the future. If anyone can shed any light on any of these issues it would be great. Thanks, Murrayhome | help
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