Installing FR 1.1.6

[Steve Bertrand]

Lisa Casey wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a FreeBSD 5.3 machine that I want to install Freeradius on. The
> Freeradius that was in the ports on this machine was FR 1.0.1 and that was
> kind of old so I updated the ports collection and now the FR port that I
> have is Freeradius 1.1.6
> 
> When I typed make, I got this error:
> 
> On FreeBSD before 6.2 ports system unfortunately can not set default X11BASE
> by itself so please help it a bit by setting X11BASE=${LOCALBASE} in
> make.conf.
> On the other hand, if you do wish to use non-default X11BASE, please set
> variable USE_NONDEFAULT_X11BASE.
> *** Error code 1

IMHO, you would be best off upgrading to FreeBSD 6.2, then upgrading
your ports to RELENG_6_2 as well.

However, either way, even if not beneficial in this case, it is always a
good thing to read /usr/ports/UPDATING prior to upgrading ports.

Also, take a look at the portupgrade port.

Steve