Re: [RFC] A trivial change for DESKTOP_ENTRIES

2011-07-13 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On 07/13/2011 12:04 PM, Jung-uk Kim wrote: On Wednesday 13 July 2011 12:42 pm, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: I'm sure it took Jung-uk Kim many hours to figure out why it wasn't working. Other users are going to be in a similar spot. Many users will never figure it out. Sh... Please

Re: [RFC] A trivial change for DESKTOP_ENTRIES

2011-07-13 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On 07/13/2011 12:26 PM, Jung-uk Kim wrote: On Wednesday 13 July 2011 01:23 pm, Jung-uk Kim wrote: On Wednesday 13 July 2011 01:04 pm, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: On 07/13/2011 11:59 AM, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: But code like this seems simpler than my original suggestion: if (echo

Re: [RFC] A trivial change for DESKTOP_ENTRIES

2011-07-13 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On 07/13/2011 02:35 PM, Jung-uk Kim wrote: On Wednesday 13 July 2011 06:42 am, Matthias Andree wrote: Am 13.07.2011 00:25, schrieb Jung-uk Kim: After I updated x11-wm/compiz, GNOME was not able to start the window manager. Basically, it complained that compiz-manager was not found. Then, I

Re: [RFC] A trivial change for DESKTOP_ENTRIES

2011-07-13 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On 07/13/2011 05:06 PM, Jung-uk Kim wrote: On Wednesday 13 July 2011 05:10 pm, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: On 07/13/2011 02:35 PM, Jung-uk Kim wrote: On Wednesday 13 July 2011 06:42 am, Matthias Andree wrote: Am 13.07.2011 00:25, schrieb Jung-uk Kim: After I updated x11-wm/compiz, GNOME

ports/144597: security/openssh-portable fails to compile with KERBEROS enabled

2011-07-13 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Hey people, I was looking over old unresolved PR's. I came across this one: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/144597 When I sent a message to the submitter of the PR, the email bounced back suggesting that the submitter no longer uses that email address. I don't think it

Re: Some easy to commit pr's

2011-07-12 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On 07/12/2011 12:54 AM, Doug Barton wrote: On 07/11/2011 22:51, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: On 07/12/2011 12:37 AM, Doug Barton wrote: You'll likely get better results posting URls, FYI. Doug I used to give complete URLs. Then I got told off, and told only to write ports/x

Re: Some easy to commit pr's

2011-07-12 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Chris Rees wrote: +10. Sometimes I wonder if some people think we have a magic ability to get to a PR by double-clicking on the number! Stephen, I think you perhaps may have been told off for putting links into PR audit trails? THAT is a bad idea; audit trails automatically link PRs -- as

Re: [RFC] A trivial change for DESKTOP_ENTRIES

2011-07-12 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On 07/12/2011 05:25 PM, Jung-uk Kim wrote: After I updated x11-wm/compiz, GNOME was not able to start the window manager. Basically, it complained that compiz-manager was not found. Then, I realized compiz-manager.desktop was automagically replaced by compizmanager.desktop. Now I tracked it

Re: [RFC] A trivial change for DESKTOP_ENTRIES

2011-07-12 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On 07/12/2011 05:25 PM, Jung-uk Kim wrote: After I updated x11-wm/compiz, GNOME was not able to start the window manager. Basically, it complained that compiz-manager was not found. Then, I realized compiz-manager.desktop was automagically replaced by compizmanager.desktop. Now I tracked it

Re: [RFC] A trivial change for DESKTOP_ENTRIES

2011-07-12 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On 07/12/2011 11:17 PM, Doug Barton wrote: On 07/12/2011 21:08, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: Thinking more about it, it seems to me that instead of silently deleting the disallowed characters in the filename, that the port should declare itself broken if there are disallowed characters

Re: Some easy to commit pr's

2011-07-11 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On 07/12/2011 12:37 AM, Doug Barton wrote: You'll likely get better results posting URls, FYI. Doug I used to give complete URLs. Then I got told off, and told only to write ports/x. Here is the URL I start from:

Opinions sought on location of bsd.octave.mk

2011-07-03 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
I am the maintainer of the octave-forge ports. These all use a file called bsd.octave.mk. Currently this is located in Mk. But I have noticed that many ports have their bsd.*.mk files in one of their ports. For example, bsd.mesalib.mk is in graphics/libGL. What is accepted opinion on

Re: cvs commit: ports UPDATING

2011-06-30 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On 06/30/2011 10:22 PM, Doug Barton wrote: On 06/30/2011 14:03, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: stephen 2011-06-30 21:03:43 UTC FreeBSD ports repository Modified files: .UPDATING Log: - Tell octave-forge* users to completely remove old ports

Re: cvs commit: ports UPDATING

2011-06-30 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On 06/30/2011 11:18 PM, Glen Barber wrote: I think it would be nice to have a I_KNOW_I_HAVE_THIS_PORT_INSTALLED_ALREADY_BUT_UPGRADE_IT_ANYWAY flag for situations that seem to be what caused this reply, unless I misunderstand the cause of the UPDATING entry. In either case, see below. The

libtool issues

2011-06-20 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
I am maintainer of the science/vis5d+ port. It doesn't build on the i386 with FreeBSD-8.0-RELEASE, as is shown here: http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/i386-errorlogs/a.8.20110223062852/vis5d+-1.2.1_15.log I know that other ports have this problem such as science/libctl. This port is

Re: libtool issues

2011-06-20 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On 06/20/2011 04:18 AM, Klaus T. Aehlig wrote: Dear Stephen, Or one could instead modify devel/libtools, maybe something like this. Rename bin/libtool to libexec/libtool.sh, and then rewrite the libtool script as something like: #!/bin/sh PREFIX=/usr/local TEMPCCDIR=`mktemp -d -t /tmp`

Re: libtool issues

2011-06-20 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On 06/20/2011 04:16 AM, Kostik Belousov wrote: On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 01:03:01AM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: I am maintainer of the science/vis5d+ port. It doesn't build on the i386 with FreeBSD-8.0-RELEASE, as is shown here: http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/i386-errorlogs

Re: libtool issues

2011-06-20 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On 06/20/2011 01:03 AM, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: I am maintainer of the science/vis5d+ port. It doesn't build on the i386 with FreeBSD-8.0-RELEASE, as is shown here: http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/i386-errorlogs/a.8.20110223062852/vis5d+-1.2.1_15.log I know that other ports

Re: [ANNOUNCE]: clang compiling ports

2011-06-20 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On 06/20/2011 11:22 AM, Niclas Zeising wrote: On 2011-06-20 17:37, Roman Divacky wrote: Hi! Flz@ just run an exp-build with CC=clang and CXX=clang++. The results can be seen here: http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/amd64-9-exp-latest/ A lot of these failures are trivial to

Re: [ANNOUNCE]: clang compiling ports

2011-06-20 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On 06/20/2011 12:59 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jun 20, 2011, at 9:35 AM, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: What I would like is a primer on how to suppress all the warnings and errors created by KR code. OK: http://clang.llvm.org/docs/UsersManual.html#cl_diagnostics Yes, I did see

Re: [ANNOUNCE]: clang compiling ports

2011-06-20 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On 06/20/2011 02:28 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jun 20, 2011, at 12:09 PM, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: top_button_cross() probably should be declared as returning void. What's presumably happening is that it gets a default return type of int since it doesn't otherwise specify a return

Re: [ANNOUNCE]: clang compiling ports

2011-06-20 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On 06/20/2011 02:44 PM, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: On 06/20/2011 02:28 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jun 20, 2011, at 12:09 PM, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: top_button_cross() probably should be declared as returning void. What's presumably happening is that it gets a default return

Re: Propose new macro: INSTALL_CONF

2011-05-14 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Chris Rees wrote: Hi all, I'm getting frustrated with editing config files of ports in vi, and being told it's read-only. This stops me using ZZ to quit, which makes me sad. I do :w!:q which is only three key strokes longer than ZZ. (My apologies if I am missing something.)

Re: Why so many versions of the port science/hdf?

2011-05-11 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: Why are there three versions of science/hdf in the ports? This is causing problems for me when I try to build the port octave-forge. As dependencies, it calls in the octave port (which currently defaults to hdf5), the cgnslib port (which uses hdf5-18

Why so many versions of the port science/hdf?

2011-05-10 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Why are there three versions of science/hdf in the ports? This is causing problems for me when I try to build the port octave-forge. As dependencies, it calls in the octave port (which currently defaults to hdf5), the cgnslib port (which uses hdf5-18), and the opendx port (which uses hdf).

Re: multiple definition of `__i686.get_pc_thunk.bx'

2011-03-01 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
b. f. wrote: On 3/1/11, Stephen Montgomery-Smithstep...@missouri.edu wrote: Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: b. f. wrote: On Sun 27 Feb 2011 at 12:24:06 PST Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: ... As is clear from bsd.gcc.mk, in almost every case now in use, USE_FORTRAN sets _USE_GCC, which

Re: multiple definition of `__i686.get_pc_thunk.bx'

2011-02-28 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
b. f. wrote: On Sun 27 Feb 2011 at 12:24:06 PST Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: I am the maintainer of the port vis5d+. I just got this email (copied below) saying that vis5d+ isn't building right now. The issue seems to be that some reference to __i686.get_pc_thunk.bx is included twice

multiple definition of `__i686.get_pc_thunk.bx'

2011-02-27 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
I am the maintainer of the port vis5d+. I just got this email (copied below) saying that vis5d+ isn't building right now. The issue seems to be that some reference to __i686.get_pc_thunk.bx is included twice at some point. This variable seems to be part of an object file crtbeginS.o that is

Re: multiple definition of `__i686.get_pc_thunk.bx'

2011-02-27 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: I am the maintainer of the port vis5d+. I just got this email (copied below) saying that vis5d+ isn't building right now. The problem seems to be with libtool. If I run a command like: libtool -mode=link g++45 stuff stuff then libtool does NOT use g++45

Re: ghostscript x11 [8-stable]

2010-10-26 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
grarpamp wrote: An FYI regarding: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2010-October/222897.html This problem has existed for me for many months, if not more. Currently: -rw-r--r--1 110 1002 11407910 Oct 07 11:33 ghostscript8-8.71_6.tbz

Re: Manually registering dependencies for ports

2010-06-06 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Thomas Rasmussen wrote: Hello, I've been wondering about something: When I write a script or webapp that needs some port to run, like a perl module, I install the needed port and life is good (tm). A year later when I've completely forgotten about the script I go do some spring-cleaning of the

Re: Manually registering dependencies for ports

2010-06-06 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Doug Barton wrote: On 06/06/10 17:16, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: When you install a script - let's call it xxx - that depends upon port yyy, you could do something like echo xxx /var/db/pkg/yyy/+REQUIRED_BY I think this would work. Please don't guess about stuff like this. If you're

Re: Manually registering dependencies for ports

2010-06-06 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Doug Barton wrote: On 06/06/10 17:41, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: Well, in my mind, when I sent the message, I was somewhat sure it would work, at least that it would pass some kind of quick test. In other words, you guessed, and your guess was wrong. I did guess, and it seems that I

Re: Manually registering dependencies for ports

2010-06-06 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: Doug Barton wrote: On 06/06/10 17:41, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: Well, in my mind, when I sent the message, I was somewhat sure it would work, at least that it would pass some kind of quick test. In other words, you guessed, and your guess was wrong. I

How to extract tcl src

2010-05-22 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
I am trying to update graphics/togl. I am running into the following issue. The togl configure file accesses /usr/local/lib/tcl8.5/tclConfig.sh, and figures out that the port was built in /usr/ports/lang/tcl85/work/tcl8.5.8. It wants to access that directory. How do I tell the Makefile in

netgen - was Re: How to extract tcl src

2010-05-22 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Thanks for all the responses. However I have decided against performing an update of graphics/togl. I was trying to upgrade cad/netgen to 4.9.13 (an update appeared on sourceforge a while ago). This required togl, and there are some mistakes in the togl port. So I thought I might as well

Re: My ports.

2010-02-22 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Marcelo Araujo wrote: Hi guys, There are some ports that I haven't interested and neither used anymore, so I'm here to check if there is anyone that would be interested to push them and maintain those updated before set up those to po...@. Please, send me a list of ports that you want and I'm

Re: Fwd: Problems with freebsd octave-forge ports?

2010-02-22 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Hi, I am the maintainer of the octave-forge ports. If you can send me some diagnostics, I will be happy to work on this problem. Stephen FW wrote: I asked this at the octave maintainers list, thought I would bounce it here too. -- Forwarded message -- From:

Re: patch upgrade for port committers?

2010-01-29 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:01:44 -0600 (CST) Stephen Montgomery-Smithstep...@missouri.edu wrote: Also, I have taken to using shar files instead of diff's when creating new files. Don't please, it makes committer's work harder. And update to a port should be a diff.

patch upgrade for port committers?

2010-01-28 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
When an update to a port is committed, it is likely to contain (a) lines like Only in : or (b) patches that are created against empty files using the -N option for diff. Cannot patch honor these cases? As a port maintainer, I have been caught quite a few times by committers not

Re: patch upgrade for port committers?

2010-01-28 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On Thu, 28 Jan 2010, Charlie Kester wrote: On Thu 28 Jan 2010 at 13:37:06 PST Doug Barton wrote: Any time you send someone a patch for any reason that deletes an existing file it is worthwhile to call the person's attention to this fact. When you submit a port/update that ADDS a file it is

Update of cad/gmsh port

2010-01-01 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
I have attempted to update the gmsh port to version 2.4.2. This is quite a large change, because gmsh has changed from using configure to cmake. I'll submit the port in due course, but since this is the first port I have ever updated using cmake, I thought I would ask for comments first.

Re: Update of cad/gmsh port

2010-01-01 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: I have attempted to update the gmsh port to version 2.4.2. This is quite a large change, because gmsh has changed from using configure to cmake. I'll submit the port in due course, but since this is the first port I have ever updated using cmake, I thought I

hpijs port

2009-12-13 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Why is hpijs marked broken? It installs just fine for me. ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

ports/139342 octave-forge ports

2009-10-21 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
I was wondering if someone could look at ports/139342? It is a very simple pair of fixes, so that the octave-forge-* ports will become functional again. Stephen ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: [Fwd: Re: acroread9 crashes after maybe 10 seconds ofoperation.]

2009-10-19 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Boris Samorodov wrote: 1wk...@gmail.com writes: Unfortunately, the map_at_zero sysctl didn't work for me. The following massage still recorded in dmesg. linux: pid 1378 (acroread): syscall inotify_init not implemented I set the sysctl variable just before the kernel boot. After loading

Re: Signing Request

2009-09-23 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Robert Noland wrote: On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 11:40 -0400, J. Hellenthal wrote: If you do not need to pgp/gpg sign email message to the lists please don't. I know I probably don't have your pgp public key and a lot more users probably do not either. Please use your best

Re: port science/paraview

2009-08-18 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Anton Shterenlikht wrote: port science/paraview is far behind the current version. I do understand that nobody really takes care of it, so please do not see this as a request. I'm grateful that somebody has created this port at all! I'd like to help but I've never done any serious port work,

Re: ImageMagick 6.5.4.10

2009-08-12 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, Jason J. Hellenthal wrote: On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:11:20 -0500 ajtiM lum...@gmail.com wrote: Update to 6.5.4.10 on FreeBSD 7.2 magick/.libs/libMagickCore.so: undefined reference to `carg' *** Error code 1 Try this patch: diff -u magick/fourier-orig.c magick/fourier.c

Re: ImageMagick 6.5.4.10

2009-08-12 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, Jason J. Hellenthal wrote: On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:11:20 -0500 ajtiM lum...@gmail.com wrote: Update to 6.5.4.10 on FreeBSD 7.2 magick/.libs/libMagickCore.so: undefined reference to `carg' *** Error code 1 magick/.libs/libMagickCore.so: undefined reference to `carg' ***

Re: ImageMagick 6.5.4.10

2009-08-12 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, Jason J. Hellenthal wrote: On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:44:39 -0500 (CDT) Stephen Montgomery-Smith step...@missouri.edu wrote: On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, Jason J. Hellenthal wrote: On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:11:20 -0500 ajtiM lum...@gmail.com wrote: Update to 6.5.4.10 on FreeBSD

diablo-jdk with FreeBSD-8.0

2009-07-31 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
I am running a very recent amd64 version of FreeBSD-8.0. diablo-jdk is no longer working. I am guessing it is the bumped shared library versions (because I did do make delete-old-libs as part of my installation). My guess is that the problem will be solved when a version 8.0 of diablo-jdk

Re: diablo-jdk with FreeBSD-8.0

2009-07-31 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote: On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Stephen Montgomery-Smithstep...@missouri.edu wrote: I am running a very recent amd64 version of FreeBSD-8.0. diablo-jdk is no longer working. I am guessing it is the bumped shared library versions (because I did do make

Re: unable to make package for php-5.2.10

2009-07-12 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Anton - Valqk wrote: Hello everyone, I'm trying to portmaster -g php\* but I got error. I've tested to build package with make install package in /usr/ports/lang/php5 same thing. I get: tar: man/man1/php-config.1.gz: Cannot stat: No such file or directory tar: man/man1/php.1.gz: Cannot stat:

Re: unable to make package for php-5.2.10

2009-07-12 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
this already, but when I want to use portmaster it rebuilds package for php and fails :( otherwise the make pacakge works when touched the missing files... Stephen Montgomery-Smith написа: Anton - Valqk wrote: Hello everyone, I'm trying to portmaster -g php\* but I got error. I've tested to build

Re: gnome-screensaver wirdness

2009-06-09 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: On Tue, 9 Jun 2009, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: JMC on a couple of my workstations, after portupgrading, I've found that JMC gnome-screensaver after activating renders X unusable, as it shows desktop with JMC password dialog box for fraction of second, then blanks

Re: unable to build openoffice.org-3

2009-05-28 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
I had a report from someone who told me that deleting the cppunit port (if you have it installed) would help in this situation. Oliver Lehmann wrote: Hi, I'm getting this error when compiling openoffice 3.1.0 on FreeBSD/amd64 7

Re: portupgrade -R order

2009-05-19 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Robert Huff wrote: Andrea Venturoli writes: I have a question about the order in which portupgrade -R handles ports. If I issue: portupgrade -R it-openoffice.org it will upgrade openoffice.org, *then* gcc43. I would guess openoffice.org requires gcc43 to build, but then,

octave forge update issues

2009-05-08 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
I am the octave-forge maintainer. The octave forge source files have been updated. Quite a few of the new source packages require octave-devel (3.1.55) instead of octave itself. I am not quite sure what to do. I was hoping some end users could give me their opinion. Here are some options:

Re: REQUEST FOR TESTERS: `devel/mingw32-gcc'

2009-03-29 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Coleman Kane wrote: On Sat, 2009-03-28 at 20:37 -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: Coleman Kane wrote: I haven't seen any activity on the above email, and I am curious if: 1) It was missed (and this really does affect people) 2) Nobody cross-compiles using the mingw32-* ports

Re: REQUEST FOR TESTERS: `devel/mingw32-gcc'

2009-03-28 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Coleman Kane wrote: I haven't seen any activity on the above email, and I am curious if: 1) It was missed (and this really does affect people) 2) Nobody cross-compiles using the mingw32-* ports (it is really very handy!) 3) Nobody really cares that mingw32-gcc will move from 3.4.5 -- 4.2.0

Re: REQUEST FOR TESTERS: `devel/mingw32-gcc'

2009-03-28 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Coleman Kane wrote: http://lev.serebryakov.spb.ru/download/port-mingw32-gcc-4.2.0.tar.gz I haven't seen any activity on the above email, and I am curious if: 1) It was missed (and this really does affect people) 2) Nobody cross-compiles using the mingw32-* ports (it is really very

Re: Conditionals in pkg-plist

2009-03-16 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Alex Povolotsky wrote: Hello! How do I implement conditional in pkg-plist? if WITH_STARTTLS is defined, %%PORTDOCSDOCSDIR%%/README.STARTTLS should be added to package list. I haven't found approporate instructions in porter's handbook. Alex. You want to use PLIST_SUB where a

vis5d+ build on sparc64-6

2009-02-28 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
I happened to see http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/sparc64-6-full/vis5d+-1.2.1_10.log Why is the -fno-range-check not being used? It is clearly set in Makefile as part of FFLAGS. Is this a sparc64-6 issue only? Thanks, Stephen ___

Re: Call for potential ports maintainers

2009-02-13 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
I guess I could take these ports: /usr/ports/cad/gmsh /usr/ports/cad/netgen /usr/ports/graphics/opendx /usr/ports/graphics/plotutils /usr/ports/math/GiNaC /usr/ports/math/arpack /usr/ports/math/bamg /usr/ports/math/qhull /usr/ports/science/cdf /usr/ports/science/getdp

Re: how to install a port without install: in the Makefile

2009-01-23 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Steve Franks wrote: I presume Florent's preferred method is INSTALL_PROGRAM? So far, the only doc I've found is that it exists. So I put INSTALL_PROGRAM $(WORKDIR)/$(PORTNAME) (portname just happens to be the name of the executable) in the port Makefile, or what? I've never been able to

Re: Tricking pkg_version

2009-01-18 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Luke Dean wrote: I installed phpbb-3.02 from ports (i.e. make install). I then used phpbb's built-in upgrade system to upgrade it to version 3.04. This of course did not bump the version number in the ports/packages database. I frequently use csup + pkg_version -L to spot ports that are out of

Re: numerous gcc installations

2009-01-11 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Nikolaj Thygesen wrote: Hi list, Could anyone please explain to me whether it's really required to have two extra versions of gcc installed. I Recently upgraded py25-numpy, which in turn pulled in gcc-4.2.5_20081126 as a dependency. A few days ago blas refused to compile because: ===

Re: numerous gcc installations

2009-01-11 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Robert Huff wrote: Hello: A few days ago, gcc-4.3 became the default fortran compiler for the ports. Go ahead and erase the gcc-4.2 compiler - create the gcc-4.3 compiler, and everything after that will be fine. 1) What is the realtionship between this gcc and the gcc used to

Problem with octave-forge-ann port

2009-01-04 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Hi Guys, I have this problem in that if the octave-forge-ann port is installed, then when I exit octave, octave crashes. This is a problem with FreeBSD-CURRENT on an amd64 machine, but not on FreeBSD-STABLE on i386 machines. First, I am asking for me-too reports, so that I can get some

Re: print/cm-super size mismatch

2008-12-15 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Heino Tiedemann wrote: Hiroki Sato h...@freebsd.org wrote: Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote in 20081206083250.ga54...@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk: fr Hi, fr fr I just had a problem when building print/cm-super. This was because the distfile was updated. The port was also updated

Re: speed up ports install

2008-10-19 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Eitan Adler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a simple idea to make use the threads without any possibility of conflicts. I am sure there will be someone to point out a negative, but I don't see any. When you do make install launch a make fetch-recursive thread at the

Re: getting a game into the ports collection

2008-10-06 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Haroon Khalid wrote: 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, how would I go about getting information on if its possible to include this game in the ports collection? Thanks If you

two ptmalloc ports

2008-09-18 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
There are two ports: devel/ptmalloc devel/ptmalloc2 They are identical! Which one is the true port? ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

signal handling issues

2008-09-16 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Apparently the program octave, as installed from ports, can coredump with malloc(): error: recursive call. I did a google check, and it seems that it results when a signal handler calls malloc when the signal was caught inside a malloc. And looking inside

opendx port

2008-09-08 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
I have been looking at the graphics/opendx port (ports is the maintainer). If I select WITHOUT_JAVA, then in fact it builds and installs just fine on the amd64 architecture, despite that it is currently marked broken for amd64. If I don't select WITHOUT_JAVA, it doesn't even install properly

Re: [OctDev] Proposed octave-forge for FreeBSD

2008-08-27 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Alexander Barth wrote: The only packages I didn't get to build were database, java and jhandles. If someone else could do these for me I would appreciate it. I also did not get octcdf to build, because it requires a newer version of netcdf than FreeBSD currently has in the ports. Hi Stephen,

Proposed octave-forge for FreeBSD

2008-08-26 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
I have now created a working octave-forge port for FreeBSD. You can find it at http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen/octave-forge/ Please use the latest version. To make it: cd /usr/ports tar xvfz oct-fg-port-0.4.tar.gz cd math/octave-forge make install clean To delete it: pkg_delete -r

Re: pkg_add feature proposal

2008-08-25 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Peter Pentchev wrote: On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 05:48:06AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 02:37:16PM +0300, Anton - Valqk wrote: Hi everyone, I've just got an Idea (maybe others had it too?). When doing pkg_add [-r] wouldn't it be better if pkg_add checks if _all_

octave forge proof of concept

2008-08-23 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Dear All, I am attempting to make a new math/octave-forge port. I would like to offer this proof of concept, so as to get advice before finishing it off. It is at http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen/octave-forge/octave-forge-port-bundle.tar.gz. It is implemented as a metaport. So far I

Re: octave-forge

2008-08-23 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Brooks Davis wrote: On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 10:29:48PM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: Dear Maho, I see that octave-forge has been broken for quite a while. Do you mind if I have a go at redoing it? I presume that you would want to do it meta-port style, that is, lots of ports

octave-forge

2008-08-22 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Dear Maho, I see that octave-forge has been broken for quite a while. Do you mind if I have a go at redoing it? I presume that you would want to do it meta-port style, that is, lots of ports with names like octave-forge-plot-1.0.5. I would be happy to do the work, and I think I could get

Re: octave-forge

2008-08-22 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Nakata 真秀 wrote: Do you need to be the MAINTAINER? Thank you, OK, make me the maintainer. ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ImageMagick-6.4.1-3_1 selftest fails

2008-05-24 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
David Wolfskill wrote: On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 04:38:02PM +0200, Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote: ... ImageMagick fails to build for me. I guess it is because I do the build as root while a different user owns the display. (I do use kdm for login and start the build after su in a Konsole.)

Weird mouse problems with X

2008-03-29 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
I updated the ports, and now the mouse under X is extremely erratic. On a hunch, I downgraded policykit and hal (leaving the other ports intact), and this fixed the problem completely. Any ideas? ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: FreeBSD Port: nvidia-driver-169.12

2008-03-08 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Rainer Hurling wrote: On 07.03.2008 14:21 (UTC+1), David Marec wrote: Laurent, I think I've found the problem :) In /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/extensions, there was libglx.so and libglx.so.1. I rename the libglx.so in libglx.so.old and libglx.so.1 in libglx.so. Beware of Xorg updates;

Re: Possibly unbuildable ports reminder

2008-01-28 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Wesley Shields wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 07:45:09AM -0600, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: Bill Fenner wrote: Dear porters, This is just a reminder to please periodically check the list of unbuildable ports at http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/ . A list by MAINTAINER is http

Re: Possibly unbuildable ports reminder

2008-01-28 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Bill Fenner wrote: Dear porters, This is just a reminder to please periodically check the list of unbuildable ports at http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/ . A list by MAINTAINER is http://people.freebsd.org/~fenner/errorlogs/ so you can easily check the status of ports that you

Re: sysutils/lsof cannot fetch distfile ;;

2008-01-25 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: see below;; jihad# make fetch === Vulnerability check disabled, database not found = lsof_4.79H.freebsd.tar.bz2 doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/. = Attempting to fetch from http://ftp.cerias.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/sysutils/lsof/. fetch:

Re: Adding program to ports

2008-01-15 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Jos Chrispijn wrote: Hello, Can you tell me how I could add a program to the ports or request to add a program to the ports? I got the request of the makers of OWL DMS (Document Management System) on http://owl.sourceforge.net/ They would like to add their program to the ports and I offered

Re: openoffice package requires libstdc++.so.6

2008-01-12 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Install the package/port gcc42. I have said this to the list before. Surely any port that uses gcc4.2 or such like HAS to have it listed as RUN_DEPENDS or LIB_DEPENDS as well as BUILD_DEPENDS. And this needs to be fixed at the ports/Mk level. How can the naive user be expected to know to

Re: openoffice package requires libstdc++.so.6

2008-01-12 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Thomas-Martin Seck wrote: * Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] [gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ports]: Jason C. Wells wrote: The prebuilt package openoffice-2.3.1 requires libstdc++.so.6. FreeBSD 6.3 has libstdc++.so.5. I have always rolled my own and am unfamiliar with packages. This particular

Re: Problems with OpenOffice 2.3.1 on FreeBSD

2008-01-01 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Predrag Punosevac wrote: Philipp Ost wrote: O. Hartmann wrote: [...] Whenever I try to save a document in OO writer, OO gets stuck and I have to kill it. The document gets saved, but I never can load it again without rendering OO unusuable. Opening M$ Word docs or OO docs doesn't matter. I

Re: pkg_delete: package 'xorg-drivers-7.3' doesn't have a prefix

2007-12-28 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Mon Si wrote: Dear list, I'm experiencing problems when I try to portupgrade the xorg-driver port. The old version of the port can't be uninstalled during the portupgrade due to an undefined prefix. The port can't be deleted by pkg_delete -f xorg-drivers-7.3 Does anybody know how to upgrade /

Re: Porting Windows program datatype problem

2007-12-27 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rob Belics wrote: There is a Windows open source program I would like to port to FreeBSD. It seems to compile OK, using gcc, but chokes on MS/Windows only type data types like 'ulong'. What would be the easiest way to

lang/gcl port

2007-12-26 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
I see that the lang/gcl port has just been marked as broken for FreeBSD 7. I happened to find a gcl-2.6.8pre embedded inside open-axiom-1.0.x-dep which may be found at http://www.open-axiom.org/download.html. It did compile with gcc-4.2, but I do confess that I didn't try running it. I

Re: Request for Features: Ports Re-engineering

2007-12-17 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Alejandro Pulver wrote: On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 07:48:07 -0600 Stephen Montgomery-Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One thing to look at is package building. I don't know how they build the official packages, but my guess is that they build each one from a clean system. But, for example, you have

Re: TeTeX and TeXLive

2007-12-16 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Mark Linimon wrote: On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 11:02:45AM +0900, Hiroki Sato wrote: Do you think splitting it to small packages will be a big problem? That many ports would create a significant impact on the build systems, especially, sparc64, which is not keeping up at all as it is. mcl

Re: Limitations of Ports System

2007-12-15 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Frank J. Laszlo wrote: I rarely post on -ports anymore, due to the lack of order and respect for those who actually DO SOMETHING, and not just bitch and moan about things that should be done. I remember it was only a few short years ago that ports@ was completely inundated by receiving

Re: Limitations of Ports System

2007-12-15 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Frank J. Laszlo wrote: I rarely post on -ports anymore, due to the lack of order and respect for those who actually DO SOMETHING, and not just bitch and moan about things that should be done. Let me also make another point related to this sentence. While obviously there should be respect

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