Re: make vs. pkg_add
On Saturday 22 November 2003 10:00 pm, Patrick Burnett wrote: Hi all, Not that I expect to be swayed one way or the other here, but... I'm curious to see what other users think of using either the 'make' commands or 'pkg_add' for compiling and installing software. I'm admittedly a bit of a newbie, and I've tried it both ways, after CVSup-ing the source and ports of course. In most cases 'pkg_add' seems to work better, but the problem solver in me wants to see 'make all install clean' and its brethren work at least once. Am I to understand that 'make' and its accompanying command options will download source, dependencies, needed libs, et al. while compiling, building, and installing just like 'pkg_add' does? I'm probably doing something wrong such that 'make' isn't playing nice, but I'd still appreciate some further insight from more experienced users. TIA, Pat ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pat, I've always been one to use the make install method. It's always worked for me, including downloading most sources and dependencies. Sometimes, after upgrading from 4.9 to 5.0, for example, I had to install certain things manually, from ports, such as GTK+ and gettext. HTH -- Eric F Crist President AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
make vs. pkg_add
Hi all, Not that I expect to be swayed one way or the other here, but... I'm curious to see what other users think of using either the 'make' commands or 'pkg_add' for compiling and installing software. I'm admittedly a bit of a newbie, and I've tried it both ways, after CVSup-ing the source and ports of course. In most cases 'pkg_add' seems to work better, but the problem solver in me wants to see 'make all install clean' and its brethren work at least once. Am I to understand that 'make' and its accompanying command options will download source, dependencies, needed libs, et al. while compiling, building, and installing just like 'pkg_add' does? I'm probably doing something wrong such that 'make' isn't playing nice, but I'd still appreciate some further insight from more experienced users. TIA, Pat ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: make vs. pkg_add
On Nov 22, 2003, at 8:00 PM, Patrick Burnett wrote: I'm probably doing something wrong such that 'make' isn't playing nice, but I'd still appreciate some further insight from more experienced users. Perhaps you could explain more about what difficulties you're having. I have used both pkg_add and make install clean interchangeably, though I prefer working from source. -- Paul Beard paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ paulbeard [at] mac.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
