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Porting software to FreeBSD
March 2008 - page 1
Having problems with my ports configuration (3 Replies)
Patrick Mahan — 120434606401 Mar 2008*
System Info: Compaq Presario (AMD Athlon CPU) 256 Mbytes RAM 80 Gig IDE system disk FreeBSD 5.5-RELEASE #0: Tue May 23 14:58:27 UTC 2006 I am having p...
Jeremy Messenger — 120434797801 Mar 2008
Hello Ying-Chieh Chen, After trying to figure why my 'portmaster -r libgcrypt\*' has failed. It turned out that libggz has an autocheck on lib...
Julien Coppi — 120436039401 Mar 2008
Hi, I just noticed that darkbot port won't install on my FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE because of the "GNU_CONFIGURE= yes" line in its Makefile. A...
Icc Compiler(Intel C Compiler) (1 Reply)
Renato Pesca — 120437734901 Mar 2008*
Dear Port Maintainer, I would like to know if there is some chance of Icc Port is available for amd64 architecture. Regards Renato Pesca...
Argument must be String class object (3 Replies)
Helmut Schneider — 120438392801 Mar 2008*
Hi, I have a few problems with portupgrade, some ports fail with error above: [root@FBSD70VM ~]# portupgrade -fPP snort-2.7.0.1_1 postfix-2.4.6,1 apac...
Steven Hartland — 120440260301 Mar 2008*
Seems portupgrade can easily break the perl install. How? Well there are various modules which can be updated but are also part of the base perl and a...
security/gnutls hangs during build process (2 Replies)
Mark Nowiasz — 120441039001 Mar 2008*
Hi, when trying to upgrade security/gnutls the build process just hangs: -8<- /bin/sh /usr/ports/security/gnutls/work/gnome-libtool --tag=CC --mode...
ntop does not compile on 7.0-RC2 (6 Replies)
Helmut Schneider — 120442238102 Mar 2008*
Hi, ntop stops with: [...] then mv -f ".deps/iface.Tpo" ".deps/iface.Plo"; else rm -f ".deps/iface.Tpo"; exit 1; fi cc -...
(Charlie Root) — 120442869302 Mar 2008
Script started on Sat Mar 1 18:10:02 2008 [root@shuttle /tmp]# exitmore bsd.port.mk ls [Kcd /usr/ports/Mkvsup -g...
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk issues (7 Replies)
paul beard — 120443667602 Mar 2008*
"/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 6147: if-less endif Not sure why I am seeing this, but I seem to get it consistently, even after I delete ...
TrueCrypt 5.0 (15 Replies)
Watermelon — 120453004303 Mar 2008*
hello, now its about 4days since the TrueCrypt Foundation released version 5.0 of their popular encryption software TrueCrypt. www.truecrypt.org the n...
FreeBSD bugmaster — 120454236603 Mar 2008
Current FreeBSD problem reports The following is a listing of current problems submitted by FreeBSD users. These represent problem reports covering al...
Package location (4 Replies)
Doug Hardie — 120457617903 Mar 2008*
Adding ports to FreeBSD 7 I normally build from source and create a package. With previous versions the created packages went into /usr/ ports/package...
polypaudio (1 Reply)
David Southwell — 120460502904 Mar 2008*
Hi Hi I have been out of commission for some time due to some health problems. When to ujpgrade and received the forllowing error message can anyone p...
why are older ports built on Sparc64? (1 Reply)
Dmitry Marakasov — 120465789604 Mar 2008*
Hi! As far as I know, we don't have enough sparc64 horsepower on the build cluster. But still it seems like old ports are build again and again th...
tigner — 120468556905 Mar 2008*
Dear , I am sorry to bother you but I did not know where else to go for help. I am running FreeBSD 7.0 i386 Release. I have installed FreeBSD-games fr...
Sergio Mangialardi — 120470168305 Mar 2008*
Hello I need to add an entry in the ports/UPDATING file for one port I maintain (py-mx-experimental), how can I do that? Can I submit a PR for that? S...
Aron Stansvik — 120475676505 Mar 2008
Hello freebsd-ports@ This is my first post. My question is if it's possible to get the prefix under which another port was installed from within t...
Thomas Sparrevohn — 120476560506 Mar 2008
Hi Version 0.5.0 used by the ports/database/postgres-plruby does not work with version 8.3 of postgres - the simple fix is to upgrade to version 0.5.3...
Stefan Lambrev — 120479318606 Mar 2008*
Greetings, New version of devel/pwlib does not compile on 7.0-RELEASE i386 Here is the error msg: g++ -O1 -I/usr/ports/devel/pwlib/work/ptlib_v1_12_0/...
interactive ports - the plague (29 Replies)
Dominic Fandrey — 120480064906 Mar 2008*
I don't mind ports that use the config framework. You can deal with them without trouble by setting BATCH, using portmaster or portconfig-recursiv...
Andriy Gapon — 120481134006 Mar 2008*
print/ghostscript-gpl fails to build on 6.3 amd64 with FONTCONFIG=on: /usr/bin/ld: /usr/ports/print/ghostscript-gpl/work/ghostscript-8.61/freetype/obj...
Andrea Venturoli — 120483577606 Mar 2008
Hello. I tried installing ocsinventory-ng and it wants to pull apache13 in. This fails on my server, since I have apache20 installed. I read on their ...
FreeBSD Port: xorg-7.3_1 (3 Replies)
Laurent Grangeau — 120483821306 Mar 2008*
Hi there ! I've been using FreeBSD now for 4 months and it's a great OS. But is there a way to install minimal Xorg server without installing ...
Erwin Lansing — 120484062506 Mar 2008
INDEX build failed with errors: Generating INDEX-5 - please wait..gpodder-0.11.0_1: "/a/erwin/tindex/ports/ftp/wgeta" non-existent -- depend...
Erwin Lansing — 120484371106 Mar 2008
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java/eclipse java/jdk16 IPV6 problems (1 Reply)
Dominic Fandrey — 120484659306 Mar 2008*
I'm running eclipse with jdk16. If I build the jdk with IPV6 support the Eclipse JUnit-Plugin doesn't work and the Debugger complains about no...
clint port broken on 7-STABLE amd64 (1 Reply)
Steve Franks — 120485023807 Mar 2008*
Just built /devel/clint on my vanilla 7.0 system. Appears to build and install fine, but #clint or #clint --help freezes the console, and ctrl-C initi...
comperr — 120486596407 Mar 2008
Hey - when I try "make install clean" on subversion I get sr/local/bin/ifnames-2.61 AUTOM4TE=/usr/local/bin/autom4te-2.61 AUTORECONF=/usr/lo...
David Xu — 120486744507 Mar 2008
It might be a bit OT, www/varnish 1.1.2 crashed under heavy load: [Thread 0xa84419650 (LWP 100874) exited] Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentati...
Alex Povolotsky — 120488274407 Mar 2008
Hello! Can anyone recommend me SIMPLE (not 3D, not game-oriented, etc - I need, basically, only recording and playback) sound library able to work wit...
Erwin Lansing — 120490774007 Mar 2008
INDEX build failed with errors: Generating INDEX-5 - please wait..pkg_info: not found pkg_info: not found pkg_info: not found pkg_info: not found xf86...
Erwin Lansing — 120491084407 Mar 2008
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Gerard — 120491453907 Mar 2008
Using a plain '/etc/make.file', I can build 'graphics/gsnapshot' without any problems. However, it crashes as soon as I attempt to run...
Ion-Mihai Tetcu — 120491540707 Mar 2008*
Hi, I get this with portupgrade-devel-2.4.3 (haven't had time to try with stable). I don't know ruby, and I don't know if it's portupg...
Erwin Lansing — 120491788607 Mar 2008
INDEX build failed with errors: Generating INDEX-5 - please wait..pkg_info: not found pkg_info: not found pkg_info: not found gpgme-1.1.5: "/secu...
Erwin Lansing — 120492308707 Mar 2008
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Erwin Lansing — 120494026408 Mar 2008
INDEX build failed with errors: Generating INDEX-5 - please wait..pkg_info: not found pkg_info: not found pkg_info: not found pkg_info: not found ...
Erwin Lansing — 120494474808 Mar 2008
INDEX build failed with errors: Generating INDEX-5 - please wait..pkg_info: not found pkg_info: not found pkg_info: not found pkg_info: not found ...
Erwin Lansing — 120494893008 Mar 2008
INDEX build failed with errors: Generating INDEX-5 - please wait..pkg_info: not found pkg_info: not found pkg_info: not found pkg_info: not found ...
Erwin Lansing — 120495645908 Mar 2008
INDEX build failed with errors: Generating INDEX-5 - please wait..pkg_info: not found pkg_info: not found pkg_info: not found pkg_info: not found ...
Erwin Lansing — 120496253508 Mar 2008
INDEX build failed with errors: Generating INDEX-5 - please wait..pkg_info: not found pkg_info: not found pkg_info: not found pkg_info: not found ...
Erwin Lansing — 120496661608 Mar 2008
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Adrian Penisoara — 120498360808 Mar 2008*
Hi, After having to deploy an Oracle Database XE [1] installation (with Linux 32bit binaries from the official RPM package) on a production FreeBSD 6....
7.0-RELEASE: digikam 0.9.3 dumps core on startup (4 Replies)
Mark Ovens — 120498931908 Mar 2008*
Clean install of 7.0-RELEASE, Xorg, KDE, and digikam from a freshly downloaded ports tree. Starting digikam for the first time gives the dialogue aski...
Kai Heitkamp — 120499137908 Mar 2008
Hi, why is the last update of port "/mail/mailscanner" so old? Many new versions are released in the meantime. Current is 4.67.6! Thx! Chris...
Sean C. Farley — 120499825508 Mar 2008
I am not sure if e17 or the patch is at fault, but using the left button in e17 to raise a window or move it (left button + alt key) no longer works. ...
Edward Tomasz Napierala — 120500232708 Mar 2008*
Diff between freebsd-games and DragonFly, after removing irrelevant stuff, is over a megabyte long. Maybe we should just use their code verbatim? (Unt...
Koopmann, Jan-Peter — 120500286208 Mar 2008
1. I submitted a new version this week. Has not been committed. Why? Ask the maintainers. 2. Why is it so old? Because I happen to have a job and some...
FreeBSD Port: nvidia-driver-169.12 (10 Replies)
Laurent Grangeau — 120500780708 Mar 2008*
Hi there ! I've been using FreeBSD now for 4 months. I've been able to compile NVidia-drivers without Linux compatibility on FreeBSD 7.0 but w...