Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD?

[Adam Strohl]

On 6/4/2012 4:23, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 03 June 2012 PM 11:41:12 Adam Strohl wrote:
>> On 6/3/2012 19:19, Erich Dollansky wrote:
>>> do a simple thing. Install a naked 8.3, 9.0 or 10.0 on a fresh hard disk. Get then the ports tree and start compiling X.
>>>
>>> I did not get a running system since at least 2007 when I did this. There was always at least one manual intervention needed.
>>>
>>> I did this the last time in the first week of May.
>>>
>>> Yes, I know how to fix this. Yes, I reported things like this at the beginning. After getting always the answer that it is working on my machine, I stopped reporting it.
>>
>> Just built a VM and installed 9.0-R from the ISO.
>>
>> Installed gnu-screen and bash (from ports).
>>
> you did not compile it as the first item.

I don't understand what you are saying.

I did a 'make install' on a clean system with only bash and screen 
installed (I did update ports first).

It compiled and installed fine without any intervention.

>
>> Built and installed xorg-server from ports without issue:
>
> building is not the problem.
>
> Start it.
>

It runs fine.

> I do not remember what was wrong this time.

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