Mark Ovens wrote:
Hi,

Trying to update my ports but devel/fam won't build. One of the errors mentions an old version of automake so I've uninstalled *all* versions of automake and autoconf and just reinstalled the latest versions (autoconf259 and automake19) but devel/fam still won't build.

Can anyone help?

Thanks.

Mark

[snip]

I know that this is not a solution to devel/fam, but I just thought that I'd mention what I did last night when I ran into this:

1. removed devel/fam (cd /usr/ports/devel/fam && make deinstall)
2. changed /etc/make.conf:
        WITH_FAM_SYSTEM=gamin
You might want to add this line if you don't already have it, but you most likely have it.
3. cd /usr/ports/devel/gamin && make install
4. pkgdb -F (and replaced all fam to gamin)

At this point I was ready to check to see if any of the ports that had required fam didn't work, openoffice, xine, gcalctool, etc, and I would have rebuilt all of those. But there was no problem.

Anyway, I have a question: Why are there two ports here that do the same thing? Some of my ports specify fam, some specify gamin, and of course I have to have the WITH_FAM_SYSTEM var in make.conf to remove conflicts. If the two DON'T do the same thing, what is the difference? Just asking.

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B Briggs
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