On Tue, 20 Jul 1999 mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Eric Zylstra wrote:
> 
> > I have just installed pkgsrc as specified in the documentation (I 
> > used method 2 for obtaining pkgsrc, sup).
> > 
> > Everything in the sup download appeared to go perfectly fine.
> > 
> > I decided to try installing emacs as a first attempt.  I go to 
> > /usr/pkgsrc/editors/emacs, invoke make, and get:
> >     "../../mk/bsd.prefs.mk", line 63: Could not find bsd.own.mk
> >     Fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
> > 
> 
> the file "bsd.own.mk" which /usr/pkgsrc/mk/bsd.prefs.mk tries to include
> usually is at /usr/share/mk/bsd.own.mk
> 
> Does that file exist on your machine?
> 
> If not, the next question is why don't you have that one.  Did you install
> the comp.tgz distribution set (the compiler tools)?  I'm not totally sure
> that where bsd.own.mk comes from, but it seems like a good guess.  Anyway,
> you need the compiler tools anyway to build packages.

bsd.own.mk is in comp.tgz.

download it, then as root cd /; tar xzf comp.tgz   and it'll install.

Take care,

Bill