4.2.5. It doesn't work?!

Oh. You can do one of four (4) things :

1. Fix it yourself. Technical details can be found in Porting applications .

2. Gripe. This is done by e-mail *ONLY*! The people at Walnut Creek are in no way responsible for the functionality (or lack thereof) of the FreeBSD system as a whole, and especially the ports system, which is mainly contributed by 3rd parties. (If you don't believe me, check the catalogue, especially the line saying "We cannot offer tech-support on this product") The e-mail address is Ports@FreeBSD.org. Please include details of the port, where you got both the port source & distfile(s) from, and what the error was. Note: At time of writing, lang/Sather doesn't seem to work on Pentium machines due to the Intel Curse (aka the Floating Point Division Bug). Please don't tell us about this - gripe to Intel instead - it's their bug!

3. Forget it. This is the easiest for most - very few of the programs in ports can be classified as `essential'!

4. Grab the pre-compiled package from a ftp server. The ``master'' package collection is in: ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/packages/ though check your local mirror first, please! These are more likely to work (on the whole) than trying to compile from source, and a lot faster! Use the pkg_add(1) or pkg_manage(1) program to install them to your system.