Re: OT - help w configure, make, etc.

2009-06-10 Thread Karl Vogel
This is a bit off-topic, but the same basic method works pretty well under BSD, and it's useful when you don't have exactly the port you need or the exact version of a library that a port expects. >> On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 12:06:04 -0500, >> "Gary Gatten" said: G> Yep, one reason I thought OT would

RE: OT - help w configure, make, etc.

2009-06-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
PS: I DID actually find something similar to "ports" for Solaris: opencsw.org / blastwave.org. I guess there's some feuding between some NetBSD pkgsrc system works under solaris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/m

RE: OT - help w configure, make, etc.

2009-06-09 Thread Gary Gatten
Behalf Of Wojciech Puchar Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 3:14 PM To: Charlie Kester Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT - help w configure, make, etc. >> >> The most off-topic stuff on this list lately has been your complaining >> about stuff being off-topic. > >

Re: OT - help w configure, make, etc.

2009-06-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
what exactly do you want to figure? With all due respect Mr. Puchar I guess you haven't read the OP's problem which he posted in the first message. i read, but THEN it got completely off topic and THEN i started to complain. ___ freebsd-questions@f

Re: OT - help w configure, make, etc.

2009-06-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
The most off-topic stuff on this list lately has been your complaining about stuff being off-topic. ...and people complaining about Woj's complaints. ...and my own complaining about the people complaining about Woj's complaints. :) and the circle goes on. Who is right - doesn't matter isn'

Re: OT - help w configure, make, etc.

2009-06-09 Thread Charlie Kester
On Tue 09 Jun 2009 at 10:35:28 PDT Jerry McAllister wrote: The most off-topic stuff on this list lately has been your complaining about stuff being off-topic. ...and people complaining about Woj's complaints. ...and my own complaining about the people complaining about Woj's complaints. :)

Re: OT - help w configure, make, etc.

2009-06-09 Thread Charlie Kester
On Tue 09 Jun 2009 at 10:09:17 PDT Gary Gatten wrote: With all the recent "what's appropriate for this list and wha's not" issues, I didn't know if this was the appropriate forum or not since it's not really a FBSD issue. The attempt to restrict this mailing list to "appropriate" questions se

Re: OT - help w configure, make, etc.

2009-06-09 Thread Valentin Bud
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 9:43 PM, Wojciech Puchar < woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote: > I this thread dies right now, I PROMISE I'll just figure it out >> myself... >> > > what exactly do you want to figure? > With all due respect Mr. Puchar I guess you haven't read the OP's problem which he p

RE: OT - help w configure, make, etc.

2009-06-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
atten; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Valentin Bud Subject: Re: OT - help w configure, make, etc. only want to "help people" The most off-topic stuff on this list lately has been your complaining about stuff being off-topic. Not most, but certainly off topic. But well - with n

Re: OT - help w configure, make, etc.

2009-06-09 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 19:47:49 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar wrote: >>> just few months and this will be general unix support list for >>> everybody. how about name change? >> >> Stop the whining already, will you? If you have no useful content to >> contribute to a thread, please consider ignoring

RE: OT - help w configure, make, etc.

2009-06-09 Thread Gary Gatten
d.org; Valentin Bud Subject: Re: OT - help w configure, make, etc. >> only want to "help people" > > The most off-topic stuff on this list lately has been your > complaining about stuff being off-topic. Not most, but certainly off topic. But well - with no moderation or ot

Re: OT - help w configure, make, etc.

2009-06-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
only want to "help people" The most off-topic stuff on this list lately has been your complaining about stuff being off-topic. Not most, but certainly off topic. But well - with no moderation or other execution of on-topic rule, what you expect? On the other hand, using make to grow

Re: OT - help w configure, make, etc.

2009-06-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
just few months and this will be general unix support list for everybody. how about name change? Stop the whining already, will you? If you have no useful content to contribute to a thread, please consider ignoring it. could you precisely define "useful content". I just point out that this l

Re: OT - help w configure, make, etc.

2009-06-09 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 19:12:57 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> so this could be a reference to all of them. >> >> I know (and agree) that everybody should RTFM but there are times >> when the fine manual is just not enough and real world examples >> provide a thorough understanding. > > just

Re: OT - help w configure, make, etc.

2009-06-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 07:25:10PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > > >just few months and this will be general unix support list for everybody. > >how about name > >change? > > > > > >and here we go again ... > yes. Into general mess of everything off topic being ok because you/others > only w

Re: OT - help w configure, make, etc.

2009-06-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 07:12:57PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >so this could be a reference to all of them. > > > >I know (and agree) that everybody should RTFM but there are times > >when the fine manual is just not enough and real world examples > >provide a thorough understanding. > > > ju

Re: OT - help w configure, make, etc.

2009-06-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
just few months and this will be general unix support list for everybody. how about name change? and here we go again ... yes. Into general mess of everything off topic being ok because you/others only want to "help people" ___ freebsd-questio

Re: OT - help w configure, make, etc.

2009-06-09 Thread Valentin Bud
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Wojciech Puchar < woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote: > so this could be a reference to all of them. >> >> I know (and agree) that everybody should RTFM but there are times >> when the fine manual is just not enough and real world examples >> provide a thorough

Re: OT - help w configure, make, etc.

2009-06-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
so this could be a reference to all of them. I know (and agree) that everybody should RTFM but there are times when the fine manual is just not enough and real world examples provide a thorough understanding. just few months and this will be general unix support list for everybody. how about na

RE: OT - help w configure, make, etc.

2009-06-09 Thread Gary Gatten
___ From: Valentin Bud [mailto:valentin@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 11:59 AM To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: Gary Gatten; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT - help w configure, make, etc. On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Tue, 9 J

RE: OT - help w configure, make, etc.

2009-06-09 Thread Gary Gatten
From: Roland Smith [mailto:rsm...@xs4all.nl] Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 11:59 AM To: Gary Gatten Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT - help w configure, make, etc. On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 10:38:23AM -0500, Gary Gatten wrote: > > > Anyway, I can't get past this err

Re: OT - help w configure, make, etc.

2009-06-09 Thread Valentin Bud
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 10:38:23 -0500, "Gary Gatten" > wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm basically a novice at the whole configure/make process. I've > > hacked my way through some errors in the past, but I can't get past > > this one. It used the

Re: OT - help w configure, make, etc.

2009-06-09 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 10:38:23AM -0500, Gary Gatten wrote: > > > Anyway, I can't get past this error and the app developers/users aren't > offering "timely" help, so if anyone here is interested in debugging a > configure script and helping me get this (nTop 3.3.10) compiled would be > GREATLY

Re: OT - help w configure, make, etc.

2009-06-09 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 10:38:23 -0500, "Gary Gatten" wrote: > Hello, > I'm basically a novice at the whole configure/make process. I've > hacked my way through some errors in the past, but I can't get past > this one. It used the GNU auto tools and the configure script has a > bunch of shell, c, sed