Re: make package for mutt fails

[Marco S Hyman <marc@snafu.org>]

"James Moore" writes:
 > > I'm using FreeBSD now where it's totally safe to track -stable src and
 > > -current ports. But it seems with OpenBSD you must track both from the
 > > same branch. Is this true?
 > 
 > It's neat that you can do that in FreeBSD. But you can't do it in 
 > OpenBSD. And unfortunately while there is a -stable branch for /usr/src 

Uncorrect.   You can *almost* always use current ports with an older
system.   Once in a while something changes that makes that hard to
do without (IMHO) a trivial amount of extra work.   Apparently what
I believe is trivial is more than some people are willing to do.

But the main thing, again IMHO, is that everyone wants 100% guarantees
that this, that, or the other will work.   Sorry, can't give you that.
However, if you're willing to take a chance or two...

	$ cd /usr/src/usr.bin/make
	$ make obj && make depend && make
	$ su
	# make install
	# cd /usr/src/share/mk
	# make install
	# [exit su]
	$ cd /usr/ports
	$ cvs -q -d anoncvs@some.anon.server:/cvs up -PAd

Now build any current port you want.

// marc