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Porting software to FreeBSD
May 1996 - page 1
Luigi Rizzo — 83096115401 May 1996*
There's a new version of xpdf, I tired it quickly and it seems to compile/work well. If someone wants to do a port of it...... Luigi Rizzo Dip. di...
Eric Chet — 83097648701 May 1996
Hello In file trafshow/lib/interfaces.c the sizeof(struct ppp_header) dies because ppp_header is undefined. The only place in /usr/include/net that pp...
Chuck Robey — 83098965101 May 1996
Here's the update for the xpdf port, from 0.3 to 0.4. begin 644 xpdf.tar.gz M'XL(");@AS$``WAP9&8N=&%R`.U9_V^B2!3OK_)7O,1-VL:...
gv port missing on ftp sites (5 Replies)
Thomas Gellekum — 83101970002 May 1996*
Moin moin, I just noticed that the gv port (print/gv) seems to be missing on the ftp archives. How come? tg...
-current-ports under -RELEASE (2 Replies)
(Frank Bartels) — 83103557002 May 1996*
Hi, I usually use the -current-ports under 2.1.0-RELEASE, because I want to stay up to date. This ususally works fine, but there are some ports (top, ...
Christoph P. Kukulies — 83111821303 May 1996
It happens that my host/domainname is isdn-kukulies.dialup.rwth-aachen.de look what nv does with this input: blues> nv isdn-kukulies.dialup.rwth-aa...
Lars Koeller — 83120694104 May 1996
Hello! I just download a new xperfmon++ port with some fixes (most importent X11 event problems) in freebsd.cdrom.com:/pub/FreebSD/incoming. The versi...
Mark Murray — 83121844504 May 1996
?ROTFL :-) :-) :-) I think that law was _automatically_ cancelled when Mandela was sworn in. Anyway the arms embargo against ZA was lifted, and articl...
Tex port (1 Reply)
Josh MacDonald — 83122141204 May 1996*
I get: This is METAFONT, Version 2.71 (C version 6.1) (INIMF) ! I can't find file `plain.mf'. <*> plain ; input modes; dump Please type ...
Igor Vinokurov — 83129263305 May 1996
At -current? May be. It works correctly in the 2.1R version. At least for me (2.1R) the trafshow is compiling without errors.Thanks for your hint. But...
2.1R tex port (1 Reply)
Don Yuniskis — 83139070006 May 1996*
Greetings! Could someone clarify the "problem" with the subdirectory searching (apparently recursive search?) reported in the 2.1R tex port?...
Jeffrey Hsu <hsu> — 83143806207 May 1996
I am running all my tcl applications with tcl 7.5 and tk 4.1, including exmh and expect, the really hard one....
Michael Smith — 83144186107 May 1996
... the tiff port appears to be busted. This manifests as it being uninstallable. The culprit appears to be in the libtiff Makefile, where the followi...
Tcl75/tk41 (4 Replies)
Chuck Robey — 83147595107 May 1996*
Am I the only one who has really checked out applications under the newly released versions of tcl/tk, 7.5 and 4.1? At least as far as I have experime...
Seppo Kallio — 83154760808 May 1996
You have to add only one line to screen.c *** olvwm4pl1/screen.c Sun Apr 23 22:22:17 1995 --- olvwm4pl1-truecolor/screen.c Fri Feb 2 23:08:35 1996 ***...
Simon Marlow — 83156152708 May 1996
Hi folks, I've updated the zsh port to the latest beta 17 (it's currently at beta 13). The port required minor changes, including a new master...
xperfmon++ (1 Reply)
Philippe Charnier — 83163012209 May 1996*
Hi, I made a new port to get xperfmon++ to work under 2.2-current, I first splitted the old patches so that each patch-a? apply to only one file. I th...
James FitzGibbon — 83166752009 May 1996
I'm not sure who originally did the mSQL port (it just says "mr"), but it's a bit out of date. The port references 1.0.7, whereas th...
James FitzGibbon — 83170073110 May 1996
The msql distribution is very well behaved, so upgrading it from v1.0.7 to v1.0.14 was just a matter of changing the distfile name. I also added my ow...
Soren Dayton — 83175586110 May 1996
Reply-To: Hi I got some stuff from ftp://ftp.python.org/pub/python/guido that seems to allow one to build python with the most recent tcl/tk Here are ...
teTeX port broken? (1 Reply)
Jeffrey Hsu <hsu> — 83176289510 May 1996*
Does the teTeX port work? I get Checksums OK. ===> Extracting for teTeX-0.3.3 ===> teTeX-0.3.3 depends on executable: gmake - found /usr/bin/tar...
Masafumi NAKANE/中根雅文 — 83176584010 May 1996
From: Jeffrey Hsu Subject: teTeX port broken? Date: 10 May 1996 22:40:45 +0200I don't know if the port works OK. But from what you got, it is not ...
Bernd Rosauer — 83177251410 May 1996
James FritzGibbon:Two weeks ago I sent Satoshi a port update (which was merely updating ./Makefile, ./files/md5, and ./pkg/* since the patches also wo...
Chuck Robey — 83178144711 May 1996
I am working on trying to get tcl to load an object file, and I just noticed that the file command is returning: tclIO.o: NetBSD/i386 position indepen...
Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira — 83179405211 May 1996
I just worked out a port for the new SSLeay-0.5.2a Lib needed to run Apache SSL among other applications. Would like to add it to the ports tree. It...
Mark Murray — 83180369211 May 1996
I am working with the author (Eric) on this one. Please send me what you have and I'll incorporate your smart ideas! M...
Chuck Robey — 83182735711 May 1996
I'm still trying to get the tcl distribution to have the load command work. I'm not sure if it's failing because of my machine setup, or s...
Andrey Zakhvatov — 83183779511 May 1996
Hello! I just upload port of sokoban - old logical game into ftp.freebsd.org. ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/incoming/sokoban-1.0.tar.gz. It...
Re: teTeX port broken? (1 Reply)
Bernd Rosauer — 83186366712 May 1996*
Jeffrey Hsu: > Does the teTeX port work? I get 1. The current port works. 2. I sent Satoshi a port update yesterday since a minor update of teTeX...
Jeffrey Hsu <hsu> — 83186486312 May 1996
> The current port works. Yep, I'm running it right now. Thanks. > a minor update of teTeX's texmf tree has been released last week Argh...
LESS cleanup? (3 Replies)
Mark Murray — 83193421312 May 1996*
Hi OK if I do this to LESS? diff -udr /usr/ports/misc/less/Makefile ./Makefile --- /usr/ports/misc/less/Makefile Sun Nov 26 12:47:49 1995 +++ ./Makefi...
Igigi International — 83193874212 May 1996
I'm interested in playing with Fresco but I havn't the foggiest notion of Imake files and fixing Fresco's isn't the way I want to star...
Re: LESS cleanup? (1 Reply)
Mark Murray — 83195891513 May 1996*
Sure. I borrowed the above from SSH, though...D'accord, Mon ami! Pour vous, c'est COLOR. Voulez vous COULEUR avez, aussi? M...
Re: LESS cleanup? (2 Replies)
Mark Murray — 83196011013 May 1996*
It means it will make the colour version of less. It replaces the color: target of less, avoiding the necessity of having to go ``make color'...
Bernd Rosauer — 83197041913 May 1996
Jeffrey Hsu:Sorry, but I don't understand that. If you install a precompiled package you don't have to wonder about the port's setting of ...
Charlie ROOT — 83200251813 May 1996
Hi, Could someone with Motif please port (or pkg!) Willow? (BTW There's also a caracter-only version called Wilco ). The URL is ftp://ftp.cac.wash...
bmc — 83200814213 May 1996
I've uploaded a new port of Tgif, an X11 two-dimensional drawing tool written by William Cheng . The port can be found in `ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/p...
Pedro Giffuni S. — 83202496413 May 1996
Hi, Ive been looking for a BBS system that works under FreeBSD, does anyone know one? regards, Pedro...
dynamic linking (3 Replies)
Chuck Robey — 83202883013 May 1996*
One more time, in case you missed it. If I don't get an answer this time, I'll stop bugging you. I am working on getting the tcl code to dynam...
Pedro Giffuni S. — 83208038114 May 1996
Hi, I found a free BBS system called Eagles BBS. It says it works under lots of OS`s including FreeBSD. The URL is: ftp://seabass.st.usm.edu/pub/Eagle...
Re: Databases (1 Reply)
Bernd Rosauer — 83208853514 May 1996*
Julian H. Stacey:I have a port of Postgres95 1.01 running here. Satoshi pointed me to who shall also be working on it. I tried to contact lenzi but di...
Eeek.. (re: Fresco) (1 Reply)
Igigi International — 83213449315 May 1996*
I came on asking for some help getting Fresco to work on my machine, oddly enough I wasn't subscribed to freebsd-ports, where I posted the questio...
Jed editor? (4 Replies)
Brian N. Handy — 83216687915 May 1996*
Hey there, I noticed JED isn't in the ports collection, and it *almost* compiles cleanly out of the box. (I had to make a couple of real slight ch...
Re: teTeX port (1 Reply)
Jeffrey Hsu <hsu> — 83218182915 May 1996*
> We have tclX7.5 in ports, and it should run with that Works for me....
teTeX port (5 Replies)
Marc Ramirez — 83219779915 May 1996*
My ports tree is a couple of weeks old, so I may be missing something, but... the teTeX port needs 'wishx'. Would it be requiring tclX 7.3, 7....
Re: teTeX port (1 Reply)
Jeffrey Hsu <hsu> — 83221542016 May 1996*
I have wiped out tcl 7.3 and installed tcl 7.5 and have no problems running the teTeX port, so your problem probably lies somewhere other than the tcl...
Brandon Gillespie — 83226540716 May 1996
Is very out of date. It could be made a package as well. The latest version is 3.8 (it is trying to pull 2.xBETA). The patch also fails on the newer v...
Pedro Giffuni S. — 83226905816 May 1996
Hello, Before someone starts answering back I just saw that Modula IS ported. I must apologize, my network is sort of intermittent, and my port tree i...
Bernd Rosauer — 83227115816 May 1996
Sander Narvi:teTeX doesn't need wishx or TclX. What makes you think it could be otherwise? -Bernd...
Modula Compiler !! (1 Reply)
Pedro Giffuni S. — 83228035016 May 1996*
Hi, I am working on a package that works under modula-3. It is know to compile under FreeBSD but it isn`t ported. Please look at: http://www.research....