[JDEV] FreeBSD

[Kurt D. Starsinic]

On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 10:59:31AM -0700, Donn Cave wrote:
> Quoth "Andy Smith" <andyonhols at hotmail.com>:
> |
> | So has anybody on this list got it all working with FreeBSD?
> 
> Yes.  It can be done.  I would rate it as moderately difficult,
> but that's relative.  If you're familiar enough with Bourne shell
> etc. to diagnose and fix problems in the configure scripts, it
> will be easy enough once you realize that it's not you, they're
> really broken and couldn't possibly work.  Ditto for Makefiles,
> though your mileage may vary if you picked up GNU make.
> 
> It was some time back and I don't remember the details very well.
> The problem you mentioned where it can't find its prerequisites
> crops up all over:  everything goes in /usr/local/lib, but nothing
> looks in /usr/local/lib.  Sometimes this can be cured with a --with
> flag, but not always, so at worst you may have to just force configure
> to look in /usr/local/lib for things.  The real fix would go in
> configure.in, but I'm not an autoconfig wizard enough to know how to
> get that right.

    It doesn't have to be quite that bad.

    http://mailman.jabber.org/pipermail/jdev/2000-July/002425.html
    http://mailman.jabber.org/pipermail/jdev/2000-April/002048.html

    Peace,
* Kurt Starsinic (kstar at orientation.com) ---------- Senior Network Engineer *
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