4.2.5. It does not 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 do not believe me, check the catalogue, especially the line saying "We cannot offer tech-support on this product") The e-mail address is the FreeBSD ports mailing list <freebsd-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 does not seem to work on Pentium machines due to the Intel Curse (aka the Floating Point Division Bug). Please do not tell us about this - gripe to Intel instead - it is 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 on FreeBSD's FTP server in the packages directory. 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) dddprogram to install them to your system.