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Old 1st February 2012
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Unless you pass compile options, edit the Makefile or use a slightly newer version of ports you will compile exactly the same binary that you can download. The advantage of the precompiled binaries is that the developers tweak the ports until everything compiles and then upload the packages to the ftp servers. I suspect your version of ports has some issue that the OBSD maintainers will fix in a couple of days to a week. If you can sort out the compile problems the maintainers would not mind it if you submitted the compile logs that define the error and they would also appreciate knowing if and how you fixed the problem.

What you posted does not have enough information for anyone to help you unless they took time out of their day and installed current and began to compile the same ports using the same ports code.

My main suggestion would be for you to use the current binary packages to try new software. If you want to learn about compiling software and specifically compiling OpenBSD ports there is a section in the FAQ that would be worth reading
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