Hi,

I have one main question to ask:

  Do I always have to wait for freebsd to make a port
for a certain application(that there might be somewhat
special process involve) or is it possible for me to
compile it from its sources by myself? 

   For example, I am looking for kaffeine and as its
dependency, it says I will have to install xinelib
first so I downloaded its latest sources from their
main website xinehq.de(failing from retrieving it
first from freebsd.org/ports), but then, same as with
most of the applications that I have compiled from
their sources, it stops in the middle of "make" and I
always end up just installing a precompiled package in
.tgz format("sort of better luck next time: no package
available for xinelib")

   I know there's something wrong while I'm doing a
`./configure`, only I'm not really sure what it is.
I've examined the config.log and found some lines
similar to these:

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
 configure: WARNING: libmng.h: accepted by the
compiler, rejected by the preprocessor!
configure: WARNING: libmng.h: proceeding with the
preprocessor's result
configure: WARNING:     ##
------------------------------------ ##
configure: WARNING:     ## Report this to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ##
configure: WARNING:     ##
------------------------------------ ##

and also these:

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
configure: WARNING: ucontext.h: present but cannot be
compiled
configure: WARNING: ucontext.h: check for missing
prerequisite headers?
configure: WARNING: ucontext.h: proceeding with the
preprocessor's result
configure: WARNING:     ##
------------------------------------ ##
configure: WARNING:     ## Report this to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ##
configure: WARNING:     ##
------------------------------------ ##
checking for ucontext.h... yes
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Do you know if they are relevant?


I also have the following packages installed in my
system:

pkg_info |grep make

automake-1.7.9_1    
gmake-3.80_2 
imake-4.3.0_2       

I really want to know what processess, or
pointers(ex;tools, environment variables and so on and
so forth.) should I consider when compiling from the
sources. 

Any help is greatly appreciated.
-jay:)





        
                
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