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Porting software to FreeBSD
October 2008 - page 1
FreeBSD Port: libmemcached-0.22 (1 Reply)
js — 122284862501 Oct 2008*
hi, please update libmemcached to 0.23, which supports binary protocol? Thanks in advance!...
Gustav Stenberg — 122287259301 Oct 2008
Hi,any chance that the "plplot" port will be updated soon? The current one is more than 2 years old. Thanks, Gustav...
Clint Olsen — 122287867501 Oct 2008
Can anyone enlighten me as to that this is all about? Thanks, -Clint [snip] ... analyzing files with flag PATCH_SO_NAME ... ... analyzing files with f...
Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri — 122288344501 Oct 2008*
Hello, ---> Upgrade of sysutils/lsof started at: Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:53:25 +0000 ---> Upgrading 'lsof-4.81A,2' to 'lsof-4.81D,2...
Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri — 122288415501 Oct 2008*
I just upgraded the kernel. Regards, -Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri Arab Portal http://www.WeArab.Net/...
imake-6 build failure (4 Replies)
Sean Bruno — 122290218601 Oct 2008*
Anyone else seeing this on RELENG 6? [sbruno@desdemona /usr/ports/devel/imake-6]$ sudo make all "Makefile", line 58: Malformed conditional (...
multimedia/vlc installs two ".desktop" files (3 Replies)
Carlos A. M. dos Santos — 122290851902 Oct 2008*
Hello, After installng vlc-0.8.6.i,2 (built from ports), I noticed that there are two .dekstop files at /usr/local/share/applications/ vlc.desktop wxv...
My interactive version of pkg_add - finished! (8 Replies)
Marin Atanasov — 122291932402 Oct 2008*
Hi, again! :) I've finished the new version of the program. I decided to name it `sit' - Simple Interactive Tool `sit' now supports the fo...
Pedro Giffuni — 122292551002 Oct 2008
Hi; The build system of plplot has changed from autoconf to CMake. Volunteers are welcome ... I suggest starting with devel/lasi though. Pedro. Scopri...
FreeBSD Daemon — 122294736902 Oct 2008*
dear list, i just upgraded my system from 5.4R to 6.3-p3 when i now try to install php5 w/ apache integration (apache module) i get the following erro...
i386-7-bindist.tar is inaccessible on pointyhat (2 Replies)
Craig Rodrigues — 122299370003 Oct 2008*
Hi, If I go to: http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/ and click on: * Every port is built in its own chroot environment (tarball for 7.x-stable) Thi...
Todd Bone, XSi — 122299627203 Oct 2008
To view this mail in a browser, copy http://sdm3.rm04.net/servlet/MailView?ms=MjIw... into your browser. www.xsinternational.com Dear Customers, Vendo...
Douglas Thrift — 122300815803 Oct 2008
Hello, Are there any plans to update the port to version 1.7.1?...
Re: My interactive version of pkg_add (1 Reply)
Michel Talon — 122302132903 Oct 2008*
First, congratulations to Marin Atanasov for having completed his program! As far as i understand, Marin's goal was simpler that an upgrade tool f...
Request Tracker 3.8.1 (3 Replies)
Steven Kreuzer — 122310988904 Oct 2008*
I created a new port for version 3.8.1 of Request Tracker. Before I submit a PR and get it added into svn, I want to see if I can find some people to ...
Call for Testing KDE-4.1.2 (4 Replies)
Martin Wilke — 122311582304 Oct 2008*
Howdy! The KDE team released KDE-4.1.2 two days later than planned. We are in a ports slush and can?t update KDE until it?s ended. If you can?t wait t...
Michel Talon — 122313677904 Oct 2008*
You should remove a lot, because many implicit rules are already defined in /usr/share/mk/sys.mk which is sourced by make automatically. See for examp...
Uppgrading emulators/linux_base-f8 (2 Replies)
Leslie Jensen — 122320839905 Oct 2008*
When trying to upgrade emulators/linux_base-f8 It ends up in a loop where it tries to fetch the files it needs. Attempting to fetch from But I get thi...
Marin Atanasov — 122322724105 Oct 2008
Hi, list! :) I've finally finished the program and have submitted it to the FreeBSD ports tree. Now all is left is to wait till the program gets a...
Jan Henrik Sylvester — 122323482605 Oct 2008
Playing a little with /var/db/pkg/*/+CONTENTS, I found some CONFLICTS, for example: pkg_info: both coreutils-6.9_3 and firebird-server-2.0.3_2 claim t...
Re: Found CONFLICTS: ... (4 Replies)
Michel Talon — 122328231106 Oct 2008*
I think CONFLICTS should be treated by ignoring them completely. They cause no end of troubles in Debian, for very little if any usefulness. What is t...
FreeBSD bugmaster — 122329116506 Oct 2008
(Note: an HTML version of this report is available at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.c... .) The following is a listing of current proble...
Marco Couperus — 122330005606 Oct 2008
Hello Clement, Package install of apache 2.2 doesn't work. Apache reports: "DocumentRoot must be a directory" Easy fix in the httpd.conf...
getting a game into the ports collection (2 Replies)
Haroon Khalid — 122331825506 Oct 2008*
Hello, I am working on a game which uses Ruby,Rubygame and SDL. If this game was a good demonstration of these applications and many people like it, h...
(Mark Linimon) — 122334075807 Oct 2008*
We have an auto-assigner that notifies maintainers of ports PRs. It looks for literal 'category/portname' in the Synopsis field to do its work...
Alexander Konovalenko — 122341456307 Oct 2008
Hi, tried to compile petsc port and got an error: ... ===> Applying FreeBSD patches for petsc-mpich-2.3.3.p0_1,1 ===> petsc-mpich-2.3.3.p0_1,1 d...
Steve Franks — 122341591107 Oct 2008*
In maintaining devel/urjtag, I've added a dependancy to textproc/flex. On some systems, however, I've found that when textproc/flex gets insta...
JHutchinson — 122344406708 Oct 2008*
[Gathering depends for x11/nvidia-driver ..................................................................................... done] [Exclude up-to-da...
FreeBSD Port: open-vm-tools-nox11-102166_4 (2 Replies)
Cligny, Laurent — 122344954208 Oct 2008*
Hello, I want to use open-vm-tools-nox11 on a 7.0-RELEASE box without using the port tree on it. So I wanted to build a package for this port on anoth...
आशीष शुक्ल Ashish Shukla — 122349941108 Oct 2008
Hi all, I'm experiencing following issue with ekiga-2.0.11_4 package. 8<8<- % gdb `which ekiga` GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD] Copyright 2004 Free ...
Perl-5.8.10 release date? (1 Reply)
Jerry — 122350120108 Oct 2008*
I am assuming that Perl-5.8.10 is not going to be in the soon to be released FBSD-7.1; however, is there any word as to when it might actually be rele...
Ivan Voras — 122350238908 Oct 2008
Hi, Some time ago I've written about an idea to extend the standard ports/package infrastructure with "transactions". Here are some note...
FreeBSD Port: claws-mail-3.5.0_1 (3 Replies)
Terry Poulin — 122364522610 Oct 2008*
Hi, just a heads up -- claws-mail 3.6.0 was released on 2008-10-03, approximately 5 days ago. The current version for mail/claws-mail is 3.5.0, releas...
Jos Backus — 122365598210 Oct 2008
I'm seeing the following crash on -current: #0 0x2a31656b in thr_kill () at thr_kill.S:2 #1 0x2a2c5736 in pthread_kill () from /lib/libthr.so.3 #2...
clemens fischer — 122366961610 Oct 2008
hi, I am packaging up a few ports for a nanobsd based USB stick. Some of the programs are "quite right", but I need to replace or add files....
Desmond Chapman — 122373977811 Oct 2008
I'm stepping into this blindly because I want virtualbox to work on freebsd 7.0 and above amd64. I need help such as tutorials on Makefiles: build...
Re: multimedia/xvid (1 Reply)
Michel Talon — 122375337911 Oct 2008*
Your Makefile allows xvid to compile without any problem on x86. I have also checked that xvid builds on a clean machine, without nasm or yasm install...
It is illogical layout of ports (6 Replies)
Sokolov Alexey — 122376806611 Oct 2008*
Hi! The location of some ports contradictory. They need all rank in the categories you want. Examples: 1. misc/k3b-i18n www/firefox-i18n mail/thunderb...
FreeBSD Port: mercurial-1.0.2 (1 Reply)
John Francis Lee — 122384537812 Oct 2008*
Hi Roberto, I have Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 1.0.1) installed on my FreeBSD host at verio.net and it seems to be working ok. But I am having ...
FreeBSD Port: opera-9.60.20081004 (1 Reply)
Nikolaj Thygesen — 122384538312 Oct 2008*
When running the new opera 2.60 on fbsd, it will try to launch: /usr/local/share/opera/bin/operapluginwrapper.linux which doesn't exist. Another w...
multimedia/xvid (5 Replies)
Michel Talon — 122387267613 Oct 2008*
Trying to encode with mencoder and the xvid codec(*), i discovered that it is awfully slow (around 3 frames/s on my P4 machine). So i played a little ...
Dominic Fandrey — 122389022313 Oct 2008
I have installed the firefox3-i18n port and set general.useragent.locale to en-GB, yet the interface is still displayed in US English (E.g. colors ins...
FreeBSD bugmaster — 122389596513 Oct 2008
(Note: an HTML version of this report is available at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.c... .) The following is a listing of current proble...
Erwin Lansing — 122390242513 Oct 2008
INDEX build failed with errors: Generating INDEX-6 - please wait..pkg_info: not found pkg_info: not found pkg_info: not found pkg_info: not found Done...
Is CONFLICTS broken? (2 Replies)
Boris Samorodov — 122390374913 Oct 2008*
Hello List, seems that CONFLICTS is broken (have tested with recent ports at two servers): - host% pkg_info -xI linux_base linux_base-fc-4_13 Base set...
Erwin Lansing — 122392406213 Oct 2008
INDEX build failed with errors: Generating INDEX-6 - please wait..pkg_info: not found pkg_info: not found pkg_info: not found pkg_info: not found Done...
INDEX build failed for 6.x (1 Reply)
Erwin Lansing — 122393238013 Oct 2008*
INDEX build failed with errors: Generating INDEX-6 - please wait..pkg_info: not found pkg_info: not found pkg_info: not found pkg_info: not found Done...
Erwin Lansing — 122393476413 Oct 2008
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David Wolfskill — 122393581113 Oct 2008*
During my daily portmaster(1) run today, I had some difficulties getting graphics/gimp-app updated from gimp-app-2.4.7,1 -> gimp-app-2.6.1,1. Appar...
Bill Fenner — 122397840614 Oct 2008
Dear porters, This is just a reminder to please periodically check the list of unbuildable ports at http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/ . A list b...