help with installing port kde3

[Kent Stewart]

On Monday 22 September 2003 07:48 pm, Micheal Patterson wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "ALIAS" <liuyang99 at earthlink.net>
> To: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 9:33 PM
> Subject: help with installing port kde3
>
> > so i updated my ports with cvs then i installed xfree4 from port
> > then i
>
> tried
>
> > to install kde3 from port too, took about a day and a half until
> > some
>
> error
>
> > came up with bison-1.75 the work/bison-1.75/doc/bison.texinfo has
> > some
>
> errors
>
> > in it with unknown commands copying and insertcopying and unmatched
> > @end command or something like that and i didn't know how to fix it
> > and i had
>
> to
>
> > reinstall everything again, can someone tell me how to fix the
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> I just had that very same problem today when attempting to get
> atacontrol working after a kernel recompile. What ended up being the
> problem was the kernel source and user/src were out of sync. I cvs'd
> the current src tree, rebuilt world and recompiled kernel and the
> problem was corrected.
>

Bison depends on the texinfo found in 4.7 or later versions of FreeBSD. 
You either have to upgrade to 4.7 or patch texinfo. I would personally 
upgrade to 4.8 or -stable.

Kent

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