broken port

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 10:19:21PM +0100, Kiffin Gish wrote:
> Sometimes when I am trying to make something from the ports I get the
> message that the port is 'broken'.
> 
> For example, while trying to build the enlightenment window manager.
> 
> What does that mean and what can I do to get around it?

Usually, "is known not to compile on your version of FreeBSD".
Enlightment itself is not marked broken though, so you'll have to post
the exact error message you receive to get more specific advice.

Kris
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