Technical questions and Newbie experience.

[Chauncey Smith]

Hey that's a great idea.. I'm seeing port 2.0.... with your advancements
That must be how open source works. kick out one idea and someone will come
back with at least a few other good ones and the software can advance like
that.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Olivier Gautherot" <ogautherot at freesurf.fr>
To: "Chauncey Smith" <csmith at icdc.com>
Cc: <freebsd-newbies at freebsd.org>
Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 1:28 PM
Subject: Re: Technical questions and Newbie experience.


> Hi Chauncey!
>
> About your port command:
>
> > !/bin/csh
> > sudo make && make install && make clean && rehash
>
> I think you should try:
>
> sudo (make && make install ; make clean; rehash)
>
> or packages that fail in the middle will unnecessarily take up space for
> their objects.
>
> By the way, a simple "make install" should do the same as
> "make && make install" (the port will be compiled anyway before it is
> installed).
>
> My cent worth... :-)
> Olivier
>
>