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Date:      Fri, 30 Nov 2001 00:25:07 -0800
From:      "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist@ekahuna.com>
To:        igorr@speechpro.com
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Am I forced to install Xfree86?
Message-ID:  <3C06D1E3.14504.211C039@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <20011130103608.C580@sysadm.stc>
References:  <3C065205.5494.1E31B7@localhost>; from pjklist@ekahuna.com on Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 03:19:33PM -0800

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On 30 Nov 2001, at 10:36, Igor Roboul boldly uttered: 

> On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 03:19:33PM -0800, Philip J. Koenig wrote:
> > All I did was cd to the port directory and type "make" and then "make 
> > install". (the way it's supposed to work, AFAIK)  I got no such 
> Check /etc/make.conf and /etc/defaults/make.conf


On my RELENG_4 box which hasn't been cvsup'd in a few months, there 
is no file "/etc/make.conf"

Regarding /etc/defaults/make.conf.. am I to assume that this file 
should be customized and copied to /etc?

Furtheremore, if I were to uncomment "NO_X=	true", what would have 
happened when I went to install the mtr port, which wanted gtk as a 
dependency?  Would it automatically not fetch/compile XF86, or would 
it do it anyway because gtk is a dependency?  Aren't the settings in 
make.conf just for building the base system?

To further complicate matters, my main RELENG_4 box doesn't even 
*have* gtk, yet it has mtr installed and working. (maybe I installed 
it as a binary from the release disks... but then, why wouldn't it 
have gtk if the port depends on it?)

I can't even find a manpage or other docs for "gtk" on the machine 
that now has it installed.  I'm sure there might be something in the 
X11 or gnome directories that is some variation of "gtk", but are you 
starting to see my point about what I'm going through just to install 
a rudimentary command-line traceroute utility?


Phil



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Philip J. Koenig                                       pjklist@ekahuna.com
Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium


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