Question on building from sources.

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Fri, 29 Mar 2013 22:03:11 -0400
Glen Barber <gjb at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 09:31:12PM -0400, Super Bisquit wrote:
> > I have my QuickSilver and no internet connection. I have a few
> > questions. 1. Do I download the latest for PowerPC(32bit) and then
> > download the sources according to the Makefile.
> 
> For ports, yes, you will to do 'make fetch' or 'make fetch-recursive'
> for third-party software you want to install.
> 
yes.

> > 3. Has anyone else done this before? If yes, then what were your
> > results?
> > 
> 
> It is painful.  My suggestion is to identify everything you absolutely
> need, and do from a separate machine with internet access:
> 
I do this all the while as I have only random Internet connection. But
I do this only for amd64. It works most of the time. Expect some
returns to the machine with an Internet connection.

> Note that if anything is missing, build will fail at compile time on
> the internet-less machine.

This should only be a problem for the ports. The sources can easily be
downloaded in one go.

Erich