noob question

[Jason C. Wells]

david mellick wrote:
> A.  is that normal ^^ ?
>   
Sure.  That is just make telling you what it is doing.  If make fails 
with an error it will report "Stop Error Code 1" or somesuch.
> B. I should be able to do --version and get the version right?  no matter what directory I am in? 
>   
If the program has  a --version option and the binary is installed in a 
directory that is listed in $PATH, then yes.  Not all programs have a 
--version option.
> It is telling me command not found so did i not install it properly or do i have to be in a special directory?
>
> I did  the echo $path command and went to all the listed locations to try and run the --version command to no avail.   
>   
If your path statement doesn't include the directory where valgrind is 
installed, then doing what you have tried will never find valgrind.  
Your path should probably include /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/sbin.  
Try this:

find / -name prog_name

to discover the location of prog_name.  Then see if that directory is in 
your path.

If the binary is installed in the $PATH, then trying to run the program 
from each directory is redundant.  By the way, to run a program from the 
current working directory, you must use the command './prog_name' to be 
sure that you are running the command from the current directory and not 
some other program of the same name in a different directory listed in 
$PATH.  In DOS, the current working directory is searched for programs 
before the $PATH.  Not so in the typical unix shell.

We typically ask questions on the freebsd-questions list.

Later,
Jason