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Porting software to FreeBSD
January 1996 - page 1
idled-1.12 (6 Replies)
Brian Tao — 82046232801 Jan 1996*
Has anyone tried making a port of this (ftp.cs.hope.edu:/pub/idled) yet? I've fiddled around with it a bit, but it just doesn't work as advert...
(David E. O'Brien) — 82053362501 Jan 1996
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(David E. O'Brien) — 82053484001 Jan 1996
I wish to oppogise to the ports list for the brain fart of sending a subscribe message to the list. :-( -- David (head bowed, tail between his legs)...
Netscape 2.0b3 and Java (3 Replies)
Donald Burr — 82073217704 Jan 1996*
well, to celebrate (finally!) getting the Linux emulator to run, I decided the hell with the hourly charges my ISP charges and download the latest Net...
`make run'? Don't hit! (1 Reply)
Jordan K. Hubbard — 82075716704 Jan 1996*
OK, maybe I'm taking the "hold the user's hand" approach too far with this, and I won't hold it against anyone if a few shots ar...
Ruiyuan_Jiang/Advantage_KBS_at_LotusXchg — 82083484205 Jan 1996*
Thanks for your answer. This time I did use "make install" and the software was automatically installed to /usr/local/news directory. When I...
tcsh (2 Replies)
Paul Richards — 82097964307 Jan 1996*
originat# pkg_add -v tcsh-6.06.tgz Requested space: 899436 bytes, free space: 55401472 bytes in /var/tmp/instmp.000447 extract: Package name is tcsh-6...
making ports (6 Replies)
Chuck Robey — 82099739607 Jan 1996*
I have a port I'd like to finish, a thing called glimpse, but I can't find any rules for making ports. I copied another port, and it works jus...
GNU Finger Installation. (4 Replies)
(David May) — 82103215907 Jan 1996*
I have just tried installing the GNU Finger 1.37 which came with my FreeBSD 2.05CD-ROM. There were a few problems. + Minor compile errors due to incor...
gcc v2.7.2 and libg++ v2.7.1 (3 Replies)
Chaos Boy — 82112502008 Jan 1996*
Does anyone have fixes for the gcc v2.7.2 and libg++ v2.7.1 distributions so that I can compile it for FreeBSD 2.1? I'm having a problem installin...
Marie France Himo — 82119804209 Jan 1996
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Playmidi patch (3 Replies)
Janusz Kokot — 82120507009 Jan 1996*
I have included updated patch-aa file for playmidi. The original playmidi was no t able to play most of the midi files. Janusz Kokot Institute of Agro...
DDD in incoming (2 Replies)
Vincenzo Capuano — 82121447409 Jan 1996*
Hi, I am back from Xmas holidays, and as promised I have put ddd statically compiled in incoming/ddd-1.3d-freeBSD.static.gz. As I said before no patch...
Thomas Graichen — 82122176509 Jan 1996
has anybody made xmcd working with a mitsumi fx001 or an ide cdrom under FreeBSD ? thanks in advance t ___||___ __|| Perfection is...
Chris Haidinyak — 82125853910 Jan 1996
Hi, If you're not interest in helping, that's OK. I am trying to compile UC Berkeley's Spice3f4 for FreeBSD and the initial "build...
Differentiating between 2.0 and 2.1 (2 Replies)
Dave Glowacki — 82126113210 Jan 1996*
OK, I can determine that I'm on a FreeBSD system if __FreeBSD__ is defined and I can tell that I'm on a FreeBSD 2.x system if __FreeBSD__ == 2...
Vincenzo Capuano — 82126356610 Jan 1996
Ok, I am going to port ddd 1.4a. I'll let you know ... Vincenzo...
Thomas Graichen — 82129733610 Jan 1996
just as an information - if you like the NeXT Step look & feel you may take a look at the following address: http://sdcc3.ucsd.edu/~byang/bowman i...
linux `ls' port (6 Replies)
Brian Clapper — 82131579910 Jan 1996*
Greetings, Well, I've had the chance to put together my first port, and I must say, you guys did a hell of a good job with both the ports infrastr...
(David E. O'Brien) — 82134938211 Jan 1996*
I'm doing a port of Minicom, the terminal/modem program. There are several configuration and script files (really about 5). I've RTFM'ed h...
Re: Postgres95 and FBSD 2.1R (1 Reply)
MARCOS — 82138523511 Jan 1996*
Date sent: 11-JAN-1996 Thanks to all of you who answered my mail. Finnaly, I've been able to compile Postgres95 succesfully. Two things are needed...
Postgres95 and FBSD 2.1R (7 Replies)
F. Marcos — 82143078212 Jan 1996*
Hi, I've already posted this just before Christmas and very few answers (1 in fact) so I resend it. I've downloaded Postgres95 and tried to co...
Philippe Charnier — 82143222612 Jan 1996
Hi, In the Makefile for INN, there are 2 additional patches. The name of the second one seems to be incorrect: In the ftp site, ".patch" is ...
netscape-v20b5 (1 Reply)
Werner Griessl — 82145146012 Jan 1996*
Hi asami There is a mistake in the new Makefile for ports/www/netscape2 The line DISTFILES= netscape-v20b5-export.i386-unknown-bsd.tar.gz should be DI...
Javier Martin Rueda — 82145250312 Jan 1996
I compiled and installed Postgres95 2 or 3 months ago, and found one apparent bug (though it seemed to "big" to have been unnoticed by other...
Paul Fox — 82145870912 Jan 1996
hi -- just want to check that freefall is still the right place to put new/changed ports... there's a lot of stuff in there, but the rest of the f...
wither tcl / tk shared libraries? (2 Replies)
Paul Traina — 82146841512 Jan 1996*
I'd like to not continue the tradition of making shared library support for tcl/tk & friends with the next release of the ports, given that th...
Jordan K. Hubbard — 82150431913 Jan 1996*
Suffice it to say that my handling of deps in sysinstall is *really crude* (I run pkg_add in slave mode and feed it massaged data) right now and it wo...
Wrong suffix for eiffel (1 Reply)
Danny J. Zerkel — 82151693813 Jan 1996*
The Makefile for the eiffel port is wrong: ports/lang/eiffel *** Makefile.orig Fri Jan 12 00:00:40 1996 --- Makefile Thu Jan 11 23:51:57 1996 ********...
NIIMI Satoshi — 82151801913 Jan 1996*
W3C released new version of libwww, linemode browser, and command line tool. Now this version supports FreeBSD and no patch is required. Please upgrad...
tkHTML & wwwish defunct? (1 Reply)
Wes Santee — 82151935313 Jan 1996*
Are the ports /usr/ports/www/tkHTML and /usr/ports/www/wwwish now defunct? When I fetched them last night, they could not be found at the main ftp sit...
Danny J. Zerkel — 82154575013 Jan 1996
The version number for ghostscript-fonts tar file has changed for the print/ghostscript package. It is now 2.6.2, like ghostscript. The md5 checksum i...
Brian Clapper — 82155428513 Jan 1996
I installed the popclient port on my machine, but it wouldn't work when I tried to get it to bring mail into my mail box. It worked fine, though, ...
bo (b.) xiao — 82167739015 Jan 1996
Hi, I have uploaded ports of morphine-1.0 and xmorph-14nov95 to /pub/FreeBSD/incoming under morphine-1.0.port.tgz and xmorph-14nov95.port.tgz respecti...
bo (b.) xiao — 82167782415 Jan 1996
Hi, Just want to know if there is any upgrading work towards these ports. I can find ImageMagick-3.7.1, mpeg_lib-1.2 and mpeg_play-2.2 if not newer. C...
Narvi — 82170468015 Jan 1996
HI! I have a problem getting the mini SQL database server - no FTP site seems to have got neither the precompiled version or the source files. Any rea...
Bernd Rosauer — 82170581215 Jan 1996
Hi, I repaired the broken pkg/PLIST and added a script, bin/plist, for automatic generation of pkg/PLIST. I installed FreeBSD 2.1.0's version of p...
glimpse (2 Replies)
Chuck Robey — 82171995915 Jan 1996*
Here's a copy of my port of glimpse, a full text search tool. I also put a copy into ftp.freebsd.org:/pub/FreeBSD/incoming/glimpse.tar.gz. begin 6...
bo (b.) xiao — 82174851715 Jan 1996
Well, I have a soft link /usr/include/X11 -> /usr/X11R6/include I will submit the fix once I can ftp to ftp.cdrom.com. Bo...
lynx CHECKSUM problem (1 Reply)
Steve Passe — 82174932515 Jan 1996*
Hi, 124 # pwd /usr/ports/www/lynx 125 # makeReceiving file: lynx2-4-2.tar.Z 100% 0 918894 bytes. ETA: 0:00 lynx2-4-2.tar.Z: 918894 bytes received in 1...
bo (b.) xiao — 82176265116 Jan 1996
An updated port is in place now, named xmorph-14nov95.port.fixed.tgz. The cause of the problem is that I have a soft link /usr/include/X11 -> /usr/...
Someone want to make a port of this? (2 Replies)
gpalmer — 82176273216 Jan 1996*
>From the WWW page (http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/nino/stemu.h...): Description STonX is an Atari ST Emulator for Unix and the X Window System. ...
Julian Stacey — 82176506816 Jan 1996
Hi jmz, Re ports/x11/XFree86/Makefile Could you change this < X11FIXES = /usr/ports/distfiles/xc to this > X11FIXES ${PORTSDIR}/distfiles/xc ( I...
Julian Stacey — 82176817916 Jan 1996
I've just seen the double fetch phenomena again: - gil jhs csh ttyp1 35 % make ===> tk-3.6 depends on shared library: tcl\.7\. - not found ===...
KATO Takenori — 82180923316 Jan 1996
I've ported pstoedit 2.3.3, which converts PostScript files to tgif, xfig, and Frememaker format. I put pstoedit-2.3.3 into ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/...
(Henning Wickhorst) — 82182260316 Jan 1996
Narvi wrote: : : HI! : : I have a problem getting the mini SQL database server - no FTP : site seems to have got neither the precompiled version or th...
Hector Gonzalez Jaime. — 82182634916 Jan 1996
you need gnu flex in order to compile it, and you need to define LEX=/usr/local/bin/flex (or where you install it) in the Makefile for the backend. He...
Igor Vinokurov — 82187700117 Jan 1996
All, I'm going to upload TrafShow 2.0 ported to FreeBSD-2.1.0 to freefall.freebsd.org:/incoming. TrafShow continuously display the information reg...
(Satoshi Asami) — 82188131317 Jan 1996
I know that's what the original source said, but do we really want to do this? I've heard that beyond -O2, higher optimization levels will jus...
Andreas Klemm — 82190268317 Jan 1996
Hi ! Here it is ... The very first beginnings ... Satoshi ... if you please could modify it a little bit to add the CFLAGS+= functionality ?! ;-) begi...