broken port

[daniel quinn]

On January 5, 2005 04:19 pm, 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?

from the bsd handbook:
  http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-broken.html


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