make vs. pkg_add

2003-11-22 Thread Patrick Burnett
Hi all, Not that I expect to be swayed one way or the other here, but... I'm curious to see what other users think of using either the 'make' commands or 'pkg_add' for compiling and installing software. I'm admittedly a bit of a newbie, and I've tried it both ways, after CVSup-ing the source and

Re: Can't install gaim on FreeBSD 4.x

2003-11-25 Thread Patrick Burnett
tried looking in /usr/ports/sysutils/pkg_install? On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 16:30, David Gerard wrote: > On 11/25/03 22:20, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > >On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 17:06, David Gerard wrote: > > > >>Has anyone got gaim 0.71 or later working on FreeBSD 4.x? > >>What did you do to get it w

Re: Can't install gaim on FreeBSD 4.x

2003-11-26 Thread Patrick Burnett
This is more a question of curiosity rather than a solution since I'm an admitted newbie, so treat this as an inquiry to the masses. Would portupgrade help in this case to upgrade and/or install a newer version of the Gaim source/port for you to use? For example, I just ran cvsup on a clean new