Subject: Re: FYI pkg system
To: None <daemond@ibm.net>
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@cam.ac.uk>
List: current-users
Date: 12/09/1997 12:01:00
daemond@ibm.net wrote:
> 
> I ran into this problem myself.  The only way I found around it is to go to
> the pkgsrc/devel/ncurses directory, edit the Makefile, and comment out all
> the MAN entries (all of them).  I don't know why they're even in their
> considering ncurses automatically installs its man pages anyway.  The other
> problem I've run into is that ncurses doesn't work on my system period (and
> I haven't a clue as to why much less how to fix it).  One other thing, be
> sure to make ; make install ; make clean ncurses before you try to make and 
> install lynx (otherwise lynx doesn't configure correctly).  Also, you may
> want to create a /etc/ld.so.conf file with the following:
> 
> /usr/pkg/lib
> /usr/X11R6/lib
> /usr/local/lib
> 
> Let me know how things turn out.
> 
> Geoff
> daemond@ibm.net
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> On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Patrick Welche wrote:
> 
> > while doing a make in pkgsrc/www/lynx:
> > 
> > ===>   Uncompressing manual pages for ncurses-1.9.9g
> > /usr/pkg/man//man1/captoinfo.1.gz: No such file or directory
> > *** Error code 1
> > 
> > Patrick
> > 
> 
> 

That did the trick!

Thank you,

 Patrick