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From: james@parody.tecc.co.uk (James Raynard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: xspread.2.1 instalation help
Date: 26 Jan 1996 01:31:18 -0000
Organization: A FreeBSD box
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Message-ID: <4e9at6$3s9@parody.tecc.co.uk>
References: <4e5p3r$ulk@mitzi.rsmas.miami.edu>
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In article <4e5p3r$ulk@mitzi.rsmas.miami.edu>,
Ivan Lima <ivan@nauplius.rsmas.miami.edu> wrote:
>I'm trying to install xspread2.1 using the port that came with FreeBSD 2.1R, but when I do amake I get:
>
>#superuser#> make
>>> Checksum mismatch for xspread2.1.tar.gz

The most likely cause is that xspread2.1.tar.gz has somehow been corrupted, 
meaning that gunzip won't be able to extract it (although it could be that
the checksum file is wrong, or the port was perpared with a different 
version from 2.1). I can't try it myself as I've only got the 2.0.5 ports
here.

>I tried to skip this step in the Makefile, but still it crashes. Does anyone know how can I fix this and build xspread ?

You can get around the checksum test that the make does by doing

# cd /usr/ports/something/xspread
# mkdir work
# cd work
# tar xzf /usr/ports/distfiles/xspread2.1.tar.gz
# touch .extract_done
# cd ..
# make

although this won't help you if the .tar.gz file is corrupt - you'll
probably have to download a new copy in that case.

James
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Segmentation fault (core dumped): cannot find file '.signature'