[Ukfreebsd] Error code 1

James O'Gorman james at netinertia.co.uk
Mon May 28 11:28:49 BST 2012


Hi Bernard,

On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 09:34:34AM +0000, M B Richards wrote:
> Hi
> 
> When I tried installing xfce4 on FreeBSD 9.0 I got Error code 1 several times.
> According to google that means "Incorrect function" which doesn't mean much to a
> non-programmer. Is it time to switch t PC BSD? or is there an easy solution?

The error code is probably coming from make(1), so it probably isn't
actually "Incorrect function". Can you confirm if you're installing from
ports or from pkg_add?

It'd be helpful if you paste/screenshot what you're doing.

James


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