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Porting software to FreeBSD
November 2007 - page 1
Warren Block — 119388465801 Nov 2007
The questions: is this the right thing to do and is it the right way to go about it? If bsd.sites.mk is changed as shown below, all of the xfce ...
David Marec — 119390712601 Nov 2007
hello, i am trying to take the control of an ubuntu box on an nxserveur, using linux-nx-client running on FreeBSD 6.3 ( http://www.nomachine.org ) But...
[LoN]Kamikaze — 119392725901 Nov 2007
Since the new release wasn't committed before the freeze I recommend you to update your ports manually if you combine the use of ccache and distcc...
Problems building certain ports (2 Replies)
Stephen Montgomery-Smith — 119396869502 Nov 2007*
Some ports build beautifully on a clean system, but on a well populated system break at the configure stage. My guess is that some port somewhere (per...
substitutions in pkg-plist (3 Replies)
Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez — 119397146202 Nov 2007*
Hello, While working on an non-public port, I noticed that when I used macros like %%ETCDIR%%, %%EXAMPLESDIR%%, inside @exec, @unexec and @dirrm/@dirr...
NTFS-3G mount during boot (12 Replies)
Novembre — 119398599302 Nov 2007*
Hi, The ongoing problem with mounting my NTFS partition at boot time still remains. I have upgraded ntfs-3g to the latest version from ports: -- [user...
rrdtool performance tuning (1 Reply)
Dmitry Morozovsky — 119409961003 Nov 2007*
Dear colleagues, any hints to tune rrdtool with ~30k rrd files (approx 2k target devices)? machine is mostly IO-bound, showing 100% disk load with 8 o...
watching changelogs easily (2 Replies)
rihad — 119410876703 Nov 2007*
Hi, Is there any centralized way to see what changes were made in the new version of whatever the port is for? I know of freshports.org, but it only l...
: recent graphics/libfpx update breaks build (3 Replies)
Marcus von Appen — 119412279903 Nov 2007*
System: FreeBSD medusa.sysfault.org 6.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.3-PRERELEASE #1: Sun Oct 28 11:05:41 CET 2007 >Description: The recent graphics/libfpx...
Erwin Lansing — 119413292503 Nov 2007
INDEX build failed with errors: Generating INDEX-5 - please wait..pkg_info: not found pkg_info: not found pkg_info: not found echo: write: No space le...
Erwin Lansing — 119413821304 Nov 2007
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Erwin Lansing — 119415092604 Nov 2007
INDEX build failed with errors: Generating INDEX-5 - please wait..pkg_info: not found pkg_info: not found pkg_info: not found echo: write: No space le...
Erwin Lansing — 119415914004 Nov 2007
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Naumovitch Dimitri — 119418328304 Nov 2007
Hi when you will update dc deamon to version 1.1.1 ?? :( Cordialement, Dimitri NAUMOVICH +38(0)6 65 16 71 00 mailto: ^ ^ X @ , , -_-...
Mag. Cyrmon Werner — 119418550404 Nov 2007
Just tried to install phpmyadmin, stopped in port php5-zlib. Tried to install php-zlib for its own, same result -===> Building for php5-zlib-5.2.4_...
distfiles for lang/g95 (1 Reply)
M. L. Dodson — 119419535304 Nov 2007*
I am the maintainer of lang/g95. The source tarball for this software changes almost daily. I need to put a snapshot tarball up to support the lang/g9...
Fix build w/ gcc 4.2 - any priority? (3 Replies)
Pietro Cerutti — 119421348604 Nov 2007*
Hi list, in these days I'm doing my best as fixing ports marked as broken with gcc 4.2 (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.c...). I would...
apache-2.2.6 not installing (2 Replies)
Noah — 119424002405 Nov 2007*
Hi List, Might somebody please explain to me why apache-2.2.6 is not install from /usr/ports ? I am attempting to complile with mod_ldap and a bunch o...
Marko Kobal — 119424884705 Nov 2007
Hi, Cacti is now for some time in the 0.8.7 version, wich has lots of improvments against the cacti-0.8.6j.3_2 wich is the latest version it the ports...
FreeBSD bugmaster — 119426076605 Nov 2007
Current FreeBSD problem reports The following is a listing of current problems submitted by FreeBSD users. These represent problem reports covering al...
Reviving a dead port (3 Replies)
(Michaël Grünewald) — 119426157105 Nov 2007*
Hi, I want to give a new breath to the port lang/tuareg-mode.el. I has been deleted becuase of the following issues: 1. broken use of the emacs variab...
'make -DNO_DEPENDS install' causing error (6 Replies)
Doug Barton — 119426298505 Nov 2007*
I'm really stumped on this one, and I'm wondering if someone can come up with something clever here. In the last revision of portmaster I chan...
Dominique Goncalves — 119427250505 Nov 2007
Hi, I'm trying to build benchmarks/iperf inside a 7.0 guest with chroot (the host is a 6-STABLE) but it fails with: ===> Cleaning for iperf-2.0...
GraphicsMagick build error on RELENG_7 (2 Replies)
Per olof Ljungmark — 119427677105 Nov 2007*
Sources from an hour ago: == Making all in magick `./magick_config.h.in' is up to date. `../config.status' is up to date. `./magick_config_api...
Rene Ladan — 119429887405 Nov 2007
Hi, on my i386 CURRENT box from 20071105, I noticed that xfce4-netload-plugin 0.4.0_3 does not update its statistics after xfce has started up, i.e. t...
O. Hartmann — 119430004105 Nov 2007*
For weeks now I tried to get an OpenLDAP-server on a local FreeBSD 7.0-PRE box running, but with no success. Within the last 8 weeks I tried nearly EV...
Norberto Meijome — 119431740106 Nov 2007*
Hi everyone, I'm trying to install filezilla. It built fine under 6.2, but under 7 i can't build one of its requirements ( x11-toolkits/wxgtk2...
Sunry Chen — 119433420306 Nov 2007
$uname -a FreeBSD www.525183.com 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #8: Tue Sep 18 23:01:05 CST 2007 :/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL i386 PORTNAME= zhcon PO...
ruby18, -pthreads, deep recursion (6 Replies)
lemon — 119433498506 Nov 2007*
Hi, I've been struggling with FreeBSD's ruby18 port and threads. I realise there's previous discussion[0] about this and I feel I'm bl...
Jan Henrik Sylvester — 119434727106 Nov 2007*
After a 'portupgrade -f fusefs-kmod' (to make sure the port is installed correctly), I have created a package that now fails. # pkg_create -b ...
USB Keyboard LEDs are back (1 Reply)
Rainer Hurling — 119435862706 Nov 2007*
Hi list, FYI: since portupgrade of yesterday (30th October 2007) with some new xorg ports and restarting X all LEDs of my USB-keyboards are working ag...
Brian A. Seklecki — 119436208006 Nov 2007
Is it safe to assume that 99% of PEAR packages, distributed either via web or PEAR channels have a .tgz suffix, thus justifying: EXTRACT_SUFX= .tgz As...
Brian A Seklecki (Mobile) — 119436924506 Nov 2007
Never mind, there's a source .zip file separate from the pear channel package at http://pear.phing.info/get/phing-$VER.tgz Updated FreeBSD ports p...
Brian A. Seklecki — 119437372806 Nov 2007*
Makefile unambiguously stolen from ports/devel/pear-PHPUnit3: http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~seklec... For use in ports/devel/pear-Testing_Sel...
Can we have FireFox updated to 2.0.0.9 ? (4 Replies)
Martin Nilsson — 119437896306 Nov 2007*
I know that we have a ports freeze but FF 2.0.0.8 have some very serious rendering bugs affecting most modern page layouts so it is not suitable to sh...
Russell Jackson — 119438476006 Nov 2007
When building ion-3 with WITH_XINERAMA defined, the port fails fetching mod_xinerama because the entry in distinfo is missing. It was there in the pre...
Clint Olsen — 119438625906 Nov 2007
Recently I did the usual portupgrade and found that my 5.5-STABLE box won't compile the latest lsof. So, up until now I haven't had a problem ...
Edwin Groothuis — 119438831706 Nov 2007
Hello maintainers of a fortune-port, Please note the commit to HEAD of bin/36867: [patch] games/fortune: add FORTUNE_PATH env var, so ports of fortune...
Yuri — 119439396407 Nov 2007
Segmentation fault: 11 (core dumped) Yuri...
Yuri — 119439586207 Nov 2007
Hi, I tried to use chinput but it crashes right after start. Simple debugging shows that 'setlocale' returns NULL and it's passed to ...
: amsn build failed (1 Reply)
Gaye Abdoulaye Walsimou — 119440415507 Nov 2007*
Hello list, I have this error when I try to install amsn with: portupgrade -NPv amsn: ############################ error ######################## comp...
Errors with linuxthreads port (2 Replies)
Norberto Meijome — 119440456507 Nov 2007*
Hello :) , i'm trying to install linuxthreads as part of a requirement for audio/grip, under 7.0-BETA2. It builds ok and installs ok , but when tr...
desktop search applications for FreeBSD (1 Reply)
Novembre — 119441145907 Nov 2007*
Hi, Is Google Desktop available for FreeBSD? I mean can it be run using the Linux compatibility layer on FreeBSD? How about Tracker? Is it good enough...
Peter Thoenen — 119444272807 Nov 2007
So trying to track down this diablo problem and having something similar (at least in appearance) with xchat. Trying to rebuild everything (IRC sugges...
Error upgrading firefox to 2.0.0.9 (4 Replies)
Norberto Meijome — 119444812607 Nov 2007*
hi, Anyone can shed any light on this? portupgrade -p firefox [....] cc -o experimental.o -c -I../../../dist/include/system_wrappers -include ../../.....
Costa Coffee — 119445234907 Nov 2007
Costa Coffee Exporter of Cocoa. We are recruiting individuals to work from their homes for the Company as a representative/Book Keeper in the United S...
phpmyadmin make install error (2 Replies)
Mag. Cyrmon Werner — 119446633907 Nov 2007*
make install ===> Installing for phpMyAdmin-2.11.2 ===> phpMyAdmin-2.11.2 depends on file: /usr/local/include/php/main/php.h - found ===...
perl vunlnerabilities (3 Replies)
Andy Greenwood — 119448099008 Nov 2007*
I got the notice this morning like I'm sure a lot of others did, but I had a question. My home computer didn't show anything even after runnin...
Sunry Chen — 119448762308 Nov 2007
> Segmentation fault: 11 (core dumped) Yeah, the port need a bit patch, I'll look into it. Now try to run it with some options or parameters. L...
OpenOffice-2.3 : Error building under 7.0-BETA2 (2 Replies)
Norberto Meijome — 119450265508 Nov 2007*
hi everyone, I'm trying to install OpenOffice 2.3 under 7.0-BETA2. It built fine under 6.2 The full error I get is [betom@ayiin] [Mon Nov 5 08:09:...