greg walsh wrote:
> So then I tried a "make", and that's when I learned that I have to have
> my modem installed and configured in order to do a one.  Is this
> correct?  This info was alluded to in the Package.txt file.  But for
> some reason I thought that I when I unpacked pkgsrc.tar.gz I was
> unpacking the current source code and patches for all the packages.
> What did I unpack?
> 

pkgsrc only contains the make files and pointers to where the source
resides. You need a working network connection in order to actually pull
down the sources and start the compile. However, to minimize time spent
waiting for the modem, there is a command ("make prefetch" I believe)
that will make a list of files to download, that you can then download
any way you want (one at a time, from another machine, etc.). Then you
put them in the appropriate place and the build will proceed normally.

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Chris Brown -- Macintosh networking/Web development
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