On 16 Feb 2013 19:22, <l...@lena.kiev.ua> wrote: > > Darren Pilgrim wrote: > > > I have an old 6.4-R machine which I can take as far as RELENG_6, but no > > further due to a hardware-support issue (special hardware, third party > > driver). The hardware needs to live a while yet, so I'd like to try to get > > the installed ports as up to date as possible. The current ports tree > > doesn't work on 6.x > > Chris Rees wrote: > > > I think you may have some luck installing an up to date make(1) and > > dialog(1) (or set NO_DIALOG=yes in make.conf) from stable/9 or > > similar; many of the problems on 6 are caused by missing variable > > modifiers. > > I have a jail without sources under 6.3-STABLE. I copied all the content > of the /usr/src/usr.src/make/ directory from another machine with 8.3-RELEASE, > in that directory gave `make` command, then copied the "make" executable to > /usr/bin/ . I use current port tree and succesfully update > openssl, stunnel, pcre, exim.
You can also just use make install to get it in there :) Chris _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"