`call' function in `make'

Hi, Is there an analogue in BSD `make' of the `call' function in `gmake': $(call VARIABLE,PARAM,PARAM,...)? Thanks, Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] | See mail headers for contact Harish-Chandra Research Institute | and OpenPGP details

Re: `call' function in `make'

this is happening? Thanks, Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] | See mail headers for contact Harish-Chandra Research Institute | and OpenPGP details. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: `call' function in `make'

At 2004-05-26T12:41:57+01:00, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 12:15:57PM +0530, N. Raghavendra wrote: ### Makefile ## Create directory FOO if it does not exist. create_dir = if test ! -d foo ; then rm -f foo ; mkdir foo ; fi dir1: src1

Re: What's the big difference between Linux and Unix??

At 2004-06-12T14:06:07+01:00, Matthew Seaman wrote: For more detail that you could possibly want about the descent of Unix, see: http://www.levenez.com/unix/ Hi Matthew, Thanks for pointing out that interesting site. Cheers, Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] | See

Re: Rsync Setup

/ Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] | See mail headers for contact Harish-Chandra Research Institute | and OpenPGP details. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Low volume

some of the above channels may be meaningless. However, it should give one the idea. HTH, Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] | See message headers for contact Harish-Chandra Research Institute | and OpenPGP details. ___ freebsd-questions

Re: _dhcp user problems

that it added the `_dhcp' record to `/etc/passwd' and `/etc/group', and did `pwd_mkdb' as well. As far as I remember, those were the only changes made by `mergemaster -p'. Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] | See message headers for contact Harish-Chandra Research Institute | and OpenPGP

Re: _dhcp user problems

assume you opted for the choice of merging the two files? Yes, I used the merging feature of `mergemaster'. Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] | See message headers for contact Harish-Chandra Research Institute | and OpenPGP details

Re: Lousy network performance ...

files with wget(1) from high bandwidth servers like `kernel.org', convinced them that we were not getting what we should have been. Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] | See message headers for contact Harish-Chandra Research Institute | and OpenPGP details

Re: Open Source and 3rd world countries

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Re: the 'make' command in the ports tree

Handbook for technical information. HTH, Raghu. -- N. Raghavendra ra...@mri.ernet.in | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute | http://www.mri.ernet.in/ See message headers for contact and OpenPGP information. ___ freebsd

Re: the 'make' command in the ports tree

At 2009-04-13T10:48:51+05:30, N. Raghavendra wrote: The ports(1) man page describes several targets ^ Sorry, that is ports(7). Raghu. -- N. Raghavendra ra...@mri.ernet.in | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute | http://www.mri.ernet.in/ See message

Re: Format of history output Sometimes is very Different.

that alternative output? In tcsh, one way to do that is `history -T'. Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra ra...@mri.ernet.in | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute | http://www.mri.ernet.in/ See message headers for contact and OpenPGP information

Re: Format of history output Sometimes is very Different.

At 2009-04-24T08:35:22-05:00, Martin McCormick wrote: Thanks to you and N. Raghavendra ra...@mri.ernet.in for your help. That has got to be what I did. You are welcome :-) Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra ra...@mri.ernet.in | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute

Re: X Window - how to get the standard font

to ~/.xinitrc or ~/.xsession, as the case may be. I personally keep my Xresources elsewhere, and merge them as above.) HTH, Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra ra...@mri.ernet.in | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute | http://www.mri.ernet.in/ See message headers for contact

Re: ReturnCode Checking for FTP

-04-03 00:00 supfile HTH, Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra ra...@mri.ernet.in | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute | http://www.mri.ernet.in/ See message headers for contact and OpenPGP information. ___ freebsd-questions

Re: ls colorized in freebsd csh??

setenv LS_COLORS $LS_COLORS:*.gl=01;37:*.dl=01;37:*.tex=01;35 setenv LS_COLORS $LS_COLORS:*.ps=01;35: ## Use the `tcsh' builtin command `ls-F' to list files. alias ls ls-F --- Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] | See mail headers for contact Harish-Chandra Research Institute

Re: ls colorized in freebsd csh??

]. Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] | See mail headers for contact Harish-Chandra Research Institute | and OpenPGP details. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: India had no FreeBSD mirror sites ?!?

shops which do sell inexpensive FreeBSD and GNU/Linux CD-ROMs --- costing about USD 4.00 for three CDs. Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] | See mail headers for contact Harish-Chandra Research Institute | and OpenPGP details. ___ freebsd

Re: India had no FreeBSD mirror sites ?!?

At 2005-04-14T23:16:17+05:30, Subhro wrote: There are a few Indian shops which do sell inexpensive FreeBSD and GNU/Linux CD-ROMs --- costing about USD 4.00 for three CDs. I didnt find any. See http://www.roseindia.net/linux/free_bsd_5_3.shtml Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra [EMAIL

Re: Non Network cvsup?

outside your firewall, you can use CVSup with SSH port forwarding. There have been several threads in the list on this topic, which can be found by searching the archives. See, e.g., http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-questions/2003-March/000213.html Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra [EMAIL

Re: how to set fixed address problem at dhcpd.conf

/dhcpd.leases before the first run of `dhcpd'. HTH, Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] | See mail headers for contact Harish-Chandra Research Institute | and OpenPGP details. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: TrueType fonts sources

more choices by searching the ports tree. Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] | See mail headers for contact Harish-Chandra Research Institute | and OpenPGP details. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: tetex, latex, dvips

viewer such as `print/acroread'. Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] | See mail headers for contact Harish-Chandra Research Institute | and OpenPGP details. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Playing Audio CDs

commonly used or popular CD + DVD burning software used in BSD? Perhaps `cdrecord' from the `sysutils/cdrtools' port. See [Handbook, Section 17.6] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-cds.html HTH, Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http

DHCP problem after upgrade

I upgraded my system from 7.2-STABLE to 8.1-STABLE, and have done `mergemaster'. Earlier the system used to get its IP address by DHCP at boot time without any problem. After the upgrade, it is not doing so. I have ifconfig_em0=DHCP in /etc/rc.conf. After booting, manually doing

Re: DHCP problem after upgrade [solved]

At 2010-09-23T11:17:48+05:30, N. Raghavendra wrote: I upgraded my system from 7.2-STABLE to 8.1-STABLE, and have done `mergemaster'. Earlier the system used to get its IP address by DHCP at boot time without any problem. After the upgrade, it is not doing so. I have ifconfig_em0=DHCP

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 and RAM limit

://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_address Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute | http://www.mri.ernet.in/ See message headers for contact and OpenPGP information. ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Library mapping question

libFOO.so HTH, Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute | http://www.mri.ernet.in/ See message headers for contact and OpenPGP information. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: PACKAGESITE

). Fetching ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7-stable/Latest/expat.tbz... Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute | http://www.mri.ernet.in/ See message headers for contact and OpenPGP information

Re: PACKAGESITE

/Latest/expat.tbz... Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute | http://www.mri.ernet.in/ See message headers for contact and OpenPGP information. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: PACKAGESITE

: http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?pkg_add http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pkg_add ) Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute | http://www.mri.ernet.in/ See message headers for contact and OpenPGP information

Re: httpd could not be started

localhost localhost.example.net 192.168.8.10foo.example.net foo Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute | http://www.mri.ernet.in/ See message headers for contact and OpenPGP information

Re: pkgsrc vs ports

-April/039802.html Enjoy, Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute | http://www.mri.ernet.in/ See message headers for contact and OpenPGP information. ___ freebsd-questions

Re: pkgsrc vs ports

At 2008-07-18T13:41:08+02:00, Eduardo Morras wrote: Ejem, it's the 1st April joke Enjoy, Raghavendra. Indeed :-) I thought it could be enjoyed even now. Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute | http

Re: How to divide up?

the pipe to remove blank lines can be incorporated into `foo.sed', but I don't know how. Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute | http://www.mri.ernet.in/ See message headers for contact and OpenPGP information

Re: How to divide up?

guidelines in the FreeBSD Documentation Project Primer [10.1.4.2, Separating tags]. Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute | http://www.mri.ernet.in/ See message headers for contact and OpenPGP information

Re: How to divide up?

'; that level of obscurity is beyond amazing, :-) Just in case the obscurity refers to the location of the document, here is its URL: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/fdp-primer/writing-style.html Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra

Re: Deinstalling X and all dependencies

with `ports-mgmt/portmanager' (with the -slid option) or `ports-mgmt/portmaster' (with the -s option). Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute | http://www.mri.ernet.in/ See message headers for contact and OpenPGP

LispWorks Personal on FreeBSD 7

thread http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.lispworks.general/8422 which also describes some minor tweaking of LD_LIBRARY_PATH that was needed. Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute | http://www.mri.ernet.in/ See message

Re: tex, teTex, LaTeX help

too, but have not found any need to do so. YMMV. HTH, Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute | http://www.mri.ernet.in/ See message headers for contact and OpenPGP information

Re: Query regarding Advertisment

At 2008-08-11T08:10:02-04:00, Bill Moran wrote: Biju Sreenivasan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Sir, I am planning a website with BSD FDL. What is FDL? Perhaps Free Documentation License, as in G(NU)FDL. Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http

Re: stopping less command from garbaging on the screen

remember particularly making an effort to deal with the differences between them, so I can't help you there. FWIW, I found Matthew Fuller's article `BSD vs Linux' at http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4linux1.php interesting. Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: ports AUTOCONFxxx

, the above section of the Porter's Handbook says, The first letter of the name part should be lowercase. However, % make -C /usr/ports/graphics/ImageMagick -V PKGNAME ImageMagick-6.4.1.8 Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute

Re: Regular Expression Trouble

Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute | http://www.mri.ernet.in/ See message headers for contact and OpenPGP information. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Local patches to ports?

between the local patches and the ones in the distributed ports tree, then putting your local patches, as has been suggested by others, in `www/apache13/files' is an option. See the Porter's Handbook, Section 4.4, for guidelines. Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http

Re: More build problems: portmaster and portupgrade not properly working.

At 2008-09-10T03:46:52Z, Desmond Chapman wrote: === Registering installation for portmaster-1.25 # portmaster portmaster: Command not found. After installing a command, do # rehash before invoking the installed command. See tcsh(1). Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: FreeBSD CVS tag

will be expanded, leaving other keywords unexpanded. See: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/CVSROOT/options http://dotat.at/writing/cvs-guidelines.html Raghu. -- N. Raghavendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute | http

Re: FreeBSD CVS tag

/ the LocalKeyword mechanism was introduced with CVS 1.12.2. The system CVS in FreeBSD 7-STABLE seems to be 1.11.17. I think even the tagexpand capability comes through FreeBSD patches to that version. Raghu. -- N. Raghavendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research

Re: Port for drawing directed graphs?

the graph as a matrix, each of whose entries is a label for a vertex together with vectors that represent the edges starting from that vertex. Raghu. -- N. Raghavendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute | http://www.mri.ernet.in/ See message headers

Re: FreeBSD CVS tag

in support of the tagexpand approach. To be (even more) honest, I have a strong desire *not* to be a CVS expert. Indeed :-) Since switching over to Mercurial, my interest in CVS has been somewhat cursory, as well. Anyway, thanks for the response. Raghu. -- N. Raghavendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http

Re: download source code on Linux

, see http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/anoncvs.html HTH, Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute | http://www.mri.ernet.in/ See message headers for contact and OpenPGP information

Re: Configuring Bash

' should produce the prompt you want. Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute | http://www.mri.ernet.in/ See message headers for contact and OpenPGP information. ___ freebsd

Re: Lock down the all-staff email list? sendmail, alias, majordomo?

addresses from which messages to the list will be accepted. In addition, you may want to configure `/etc/mail/virtualusertable' as in Majordomo FAQ 3.6, http://www.greatcircle.com/majordomo/majordomo-faq.html#3.6 HTH, Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.retrotexts.net

Re: Freebsd behind a proxy

that is set among FTP_PROXY, ftp_proxy, HTTP_PROXY, and http_proxy. AFAIK, wget(1) doesn't --- if ftp_proxy is unset, it doesn't use a proxy for FTP requests, even if http_proxy is set. Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute

Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT.

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Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT.

mentioned textproc/opensp, and how to use it. In fact, the W3C validator is based on OpenSP, see http://validator.w3.org/docs/help.html#how Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute | http://www.mri.ernet.in/ See message headers

Re: generating random passwords

transforms every group of 3 octets to 4 encoded characters, so `openssl rand -base64 3N' produces a string with 4N encoded characters. In case it is relevant, the generated strings are made up of the 62 US-ASCII alphanumerical characters, `+', and `/'. HTH, Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra [EMAIL

Re: why can't I use $1 in .cshrc ?

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Re: Windows Unix volunteers

love to see it in ports. I guess you have already checked out graphics/chbg, and perhaps some other similar ports, before asking that question. Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute | http://www.mri.ernet.in/ See

Unable to use CD/DVD drive

CD-ROM 4,1,0 401) * 4,2,0 402) * 4,3,0 403) * 4,4,0 404) * 4,5,0 405) * 4,6,0 406) * 4,7,0 407) * -- N. Raghavendra ra...@mri.ernet.in | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute | http://www.mri.ernet.in