> On 10/5/07, Daniel Barowy wrote:
> >
> >
> > Any suggestions? Apparently I don't know what I don't know.
>
>
> Well, this is a suggestion, not an answer, but I've saved myself a lot of
> pain by building ports of PHP related stuff on relatively clean systems (by
> "relatively clean" I mean NO packages installed that are later going to be
> required when building the ports), building the packages, and then
> installing the relevant packages on the target system with pkg_add, rather
> than directly from the ports tree. I think in my case most problems stemmed
> from conflicts between already installed packages and the ones that I was
> trying to build, and the subsequent wrangling and mangling of the ports tree
> that I tried to do to "fix" it. My rule for myself, at least until I have a
> much deeper understanding of the ports tree, is to never install ANY
> downloaded packages on the machine that I use to interact with the ports
> tree.
>
> If this isn't the solution to your problem, maybe we can help with some more
> details about the failure of "make install"
>
> Thanks,
> > Dan
> >
> >
> Marti
>
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> Systems Programmer, Principal
> Electrical & Computer Engineering
> The University of Arizona
>
marti@arizona.edu
