Ulrich 'Q' Spoerlein wrote: > On 9 Oct 2002 08:47:36 -0000, you wrote: > > >>I'm trying to build openoffice from the ports and after many iterations tis >>is the final result (any suggestions?): >> >>uname -a >>FreeBSD pc1.local.net 4.5-STABLE FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE #0 >>[...] >>xargs: illegal option -- p >>usage: xargs [-0t] [-J replstr] [-n number [-x]] [-s size] >> [utility [argument ...]] >>*** Error code 1 > > i'm running 4.7 here, and my version of xargs has a -p option. perhaps > your version is too old (check the man page). you should update to 4.7.
I'm having a similar problem, except it complains that the illegal option is "i". I cvsupped just yesterday and rebuilt kernel/world just to try this out, so the FreeBSD version doesn't seem to be the problem, unless it was just fixed last night. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message