graphics/dri maintainer?

Who is allegedly maintaining the graphics/dri port at this moment in time? I would rather like to know, because it is in serious need of updating. (The version upon which the port was based was apparently released on June 23, 2009, and there have been numerous new releases since then.) I

Need a little help with a dynamic linking problem

My question relates to a port that I am doing of gthumb v2.14.3 to FreeBSD. Because gthumb is fundamentally a gnome application, I am cross-posting my question to both the ports and gnome mailing lists. (My apologies if that means that some of you see this twice.) After a modest but unexpected

Re: Need a little help with a dynamic linking problem

In message 450d1c59-c403-463b-9c35-6af26f63d...@mac.com, you wrote: On Apr 25, 2012, at 5:01 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: When I try to run the gthumb binary that I built and install, I am getting the following perplexing error message: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/hacked/lib/gthumb

Re: Need a little help with a dynamic linking problem

In message CADt0fhw=cOrwaAmb8VNDRbCnwAuzhRyu=n3l_so732epv1v...@mail.gmail.com , you wrote: Without being able to look at the details in-depth myself, it looks like the shared object is looking for a symbol which the RTLD can't resolve. That much seems self-evident. The error message itself in

Re: Need a little help with a dynamic linking problem

Sorry for my late reply... I was tied up on other projects. A few days ago, in a galaxy not far away... In message 20120426080649.go2...@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua, Konstantin Belousov kostik...@gmail.com wrote: You need to pass --export-dynamic to the linker when linking binary that is

Need help disabling (re-)configure step

I've been trying for some time to ge graphics/gthumb installed on my 7.0-RELEASE system and it just ain't workin' and it's becoming _very_ frustrating. Basically, gthumb requires avahi-app, which (for as yet unexplained reasons) won't even properly go through the configure step on my system.

Re: Need help disabling (re-)configure step

In message 3jcA1ljpZsB1WBdNgXUe/mei...@snwcwk2deghgefqjleiqreaoikg, you wrote : Ronald, good day. And a very good day to you also sir! Thanks for replying! Basically, because you're not intended to mess with the manual invocation of configure script. The proper thing to do is to edit

x11-toolkits/py-tkinter ... seriously broken

What the hey? # make = Python-2.7.3.tar.xz is not in /usr/ports/lang/python27/distinfo. = Either /usr/ports/lang/python27/distinfo is out of date, or = Python-2.7.3.tar.xz is spelled incorrectly. *** [do-fetch] Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/py-tkinter. The message is correct,

The Original VI ?

I've just been fiddling with some unicode/utf-8 stuff, and managed to figure out how to get both xterm and more (aka less) to properly deal with utf-8 characters. It then occured to me that it might be nice if I could cut and paste utf-8 stuff into vi, which is the text editor that I happen to

Port build failures -- graphics/clutter-gtk security/hydra

I've been updating all of my ports, which I confess I have not done for some long time now, and I've managed to work past most of the easy build problems, but I'm still stuck with two things that just refuse to build, based on what's in the current ports tree: ! security/hydra

multimedia/libbluray -- IGNORE... Why?

Why is the multimedia/libbluray port marked as IGNORE in the current ports tree? More to the point, why didn't whoever marked it as IGNORE have the simple courtesy to put at least some explanitory note about the marking of this port (as IGNORE) into the UPDATING file?

Re: multimedia/libbluray -- IGNORE... Why?

In message 20131004113101.GB42900@oldfaithful.bebik.local, you wrote: Hi, I Made a check in the SVN and libbluray was never marked IGNORE, at least BROKEN for some java reasons. Well, I'm just showing you what portupgrade -a reported... - multimedia/libbluray (marked as IGNORE) Are

Port build failure -- security/hydra

At the end of my effort to do portupgrade -a, I got this: ! security/hydra (hydra-7.4.2) (fetch error) Apparently, the source tarball for the current hydra port seems to be nowhere to be found. How come? Shouldn't there _always_ be at least one copy of the source tarball, somewhere

Port build failure -- graphics/clutter-gtk

At the end of my recent attempt to do portupgrade -a I got this error: ! graphics/clutter-gtk (clutter-gtk-0.10.8_2) (unknown build error) Aapparently, clutter-gtk configures OK, but then compiling it generates a whole boat load of compile time errors. I tried the Makefile fix

Re: Port build failure -- security/hydra

In message 524f179d.8030...@yandex.ru, Ruslan Makhmatkhanov cvs-...@yandex.ru wrote: Ronald F. Guilmette wrote on 04.10.2013 23:11: At the end of my effort to do portupgrade -a, I got this: ! security/hydra (hydra-7.4.2) (fetch error) Apparently, the source tarball

Re: Port build failure -- security/hydra

Oh geeezzz! Things are even more screwed up with the hydra port that I thought! I mentioned in my prior e-mail that the size of the hydra-7.5.tar.gz file being reported by essentially all of the mirrors that are coded into the current hydra port is in fact 681552... *not* 681784 bytes,

Re: Port build failure -- security/hydra

In message 524fd88e.5030...@yandex.ru, you wrote: As I already said, I can't reproduce this problem even with updated url: root@smeshariki4:/usr/ports/security/hydra # make fetch === License AGPLv3 accepted by the user === Found saved configuration for hydra-7.5 === hydra-7.5 depends on

FreeBSD mplayer port update?

Could someone (anyone) explain to me why the FreeBSD port of mplayer has not been updated at all since March 8th of this year? That seems like an awfully long time to go without any update. ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: FreeBSD mplayer port update?

In message CAFU734xXW2A3k_Db1RAhdpDoUeupx6G1fM-q1tu78Jb6=y2...@mail.gmail.com , you wrote: On 8 October 2013 02:10, Ronald F. Guilmette r...@tristatelogic.com wrote: Could someone (anyone) explain to me why the FreeBSD port of mplayer has not been updated at all since March 8th of this year

Messages while (re)installing portupgrade

Because I just switched from ruby1.8 to ruby1.9 I've had to rebuild and reinstall my ports-mgmt/portupgrade port. That all went well, but I got some messages at the end of the re-install process that I've never noticed before, and they are all rather befuddling to me:

Re: Port build failure -- security/hydra

In message 525c183f.7010...@yandex.ru, you wrote: Ronald F. Guilmette wrote on 06.10.2013 01:34: make -V FETCH_CMD Results: /usr/bin/fetch -AFpr on your system? What FreeBSD version you are using? FreeBSD segfault.tristatelogic.com 9.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #0 r24382 5: Tue Dec

Re: Port build failure -- security/hydra

In message 20131014184048.27851...@bsd64.grem.de, you wrote: On Mon, 14 Oct 2013 20:13:51 +0400 Ruslan Makhmatkhanov cvs-...@yandex.ru wrote: Ronald F. Guilmette wrote on 06.10.2013 01:34: make -V FETCH_CMD Results: /usr/bin/fetch -AFpr on your system? What FreeBSD version you

Re: Upgrading Perl... Somebody just shoot me and put me out of my misery!

In message 0fc91d46cdc4b54132d12...@atuin.in.mat.cc, Mathieu Arnold m...@mat.cc wrote: +--On 22 novembre 2013 00:25:26 -0800 Ronald F. Guilmette r...@tristatelogic.com wrote: | AUTHOR: m...@freebsd.org Cough, cough, yeah, I mostly wrote that. | portupgrade -o lang/perl5.16 -f perl

Re: Upgrading Perl... Somebody just shoot me and put me out of my misery!

In message 17d096510a47c61858d55...@atuin.in.mat.cc, Mathieu Arnold m...@freebsd.org wrote: +--On 22 novembre 2013 12:40:07 -0800 Ronald F. Guilmette r...@tristatelogic.com wrote: |1) Change the option in lang/perl5.16: | make -C /usr/ports/lang/perl5.16 config | | HUH?? I don't

Graphing installed ports

Has anyone ever used a graphing tool (such as GraphViz) to create a graph of all of the installed ports on a given system and their dependencies? I think that this would be interesting... and perhaps even useful... to do, but it seems like such an obvious idea that I have to guess that somebody

Re: Graphing installed ports

In message d5ad0e8d-2bb8-48cc-9ed6-52933d321...@lpthe.jussieu.fr, Michel Talon ta...@lpthe.jussieu.fr wrote: The following script http://www.lpthe.jussieu.fr/~talon/check_pkg.py does the job you want plus other things, Thank you! but it was written for the old package system (i.e. it looks

Re: Upgrading Perl... Somebody just shoot me and put me out of my misery!

In message caeahp2iw+hd4rnnzk0rvd6imnr+badevatgf0fqwblpikmp...@mail.gmail.com Anton Afanasyev aas...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette r...@tristatelogic.com wrote: OK, but please help me understand here. What is it, exactly, that is _now_ being

After updating ports, flash plugins for Firefox Opera have gone AWOL

Having gotten past all the difficulties that related to Perl, I have finally managed to update essentially all of my installed ports. (I still have a small problem with the update for ffmpeg(2), but I'll take that up later on.) Unfortunately, after updating all my ports I find that I now have a

Re: Upgrading Perl... Somebody just shoot me and put me out of my misery!

In message 845a2e7e540e58efd7f05...@atuin.in.mat.cc, Mathieu Arnold m...@freebsd.org wrote: rfg wrote: | Why would _anything_ that is in any way dependent upon the Perl | interpreter need to be rebuilt? In this switch to threads=on, has the | language itself changed? And if not, shouldn't the

graphviz -- can't fetch

What gives? Where is the missing .gz file? % portupgrade graphics/graphviz ... === Found saved configuration for graphviz-2.30.1 = graphviz-2.30.1.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/. = Attempting to fetch http://www.graphviz.org/pub/graphviz/ARCHIVE/graphviz-2.30.1.tar.gz

Re: graphviz -- can't fetch

In message 44k3p8pa1t@lowell-desk.lan, Lowell Gilbert freebsd-ports-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: Ronald F. Guilmette r...@tristatelogic.com writes: What gives? Where is the missing .gz file? % portupgrade graphics/graphviz ... === Found saved configuration for graphviz-2.30.1

Re: graphviz -- can't fetch

FWIW, I have fetched the distfile repeatedly over the past three days on a variety of systems with no problems at all. Slow at between 600 and 800 kBps with my very well connected work system at the high end and my home system at the low end. I am also getting it from www.graphviz.org. Sounds

Re: graphviz -- can't fetch

In message 44mwu3rqxn@lowell-desk.lan, you wrote: I suspect that it's tied to the package building cluster problems. I'm not sure who to ask directly, so a PR is the right approach. For the enlightment of those not in the know (which includes myself) please do elaborate. What am the

pkg_version: the package info for package '...' is corrupt

[[ I asked about this problem on the -questions list a couple of days ago, but didn't get any relevant replies, so I'm trying again here on the -ports list. Apologies if you see this twice. ]] A couple of days ago my system just simply decided to power itself off (twice) whilst I was in

Re: pkg_version: the package info for package '...' is corrupt

Ok, first, my apologies to Leslie Jensen about the e-mail bounce. It is nothing personal, believe me. I just have a personal policy of locally blacklisting any and all domains that send me spam. (Apparently, at one time or another, I received some spam from bjare.net.) I believe that if

Missing +CONTENTS syndrome: Selectively restoring +CONTENTS files

A couple of three weeks ago or so, I experienced an unfortunate series of three or four system crashes, all of which I ultimately found to be attributable to CPU automatic over-temp shutdowns, where the reason for the overheating turned out to be something really rather stupid. Some cables inside

WANTED: Tool to verify installed package/port consistancy

The subject line pretty much says it all. As I explained here the other day, numerous of my installed ports have semi-mysteriously had their corresponding +CONTENTS files just disappear. I do have a backup of my /var partition, from which I could, in theory, fetch replacements for the specific

Re: Tool to verify installed package/port consistancy

b.f. bf1783 at googlemail.com wrote: Yes, of course, this is a basic package management feature: pkg_info(1) with the -g flag. (The analogous part of the newer pkgng is described in pkg-check(8) from ports-mgmt/pkg.) Thank you. I did not know about the -g option. I have just now run that for

Re: WANTED: Tool to verify installed package/port consistancy

In message 518e1a51.3020...@cyberleo.net, you wrote: On 05/10/2013 03:04 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: snip pkg_sanity: ImageMagick-6.8.0.7_1: +CONTENTS file does not exist -- skipped pkg_sanity: ORBit2-2.14.19: /usr/local/lib/libORBit-2.so: File failed MD5 checksum pkg_sanity: ORBit2

Re: WANTED: Tool to verify installed package/port consistancy

So, as I have now learned (and just as the post by CyberLeo Kitsana had suggested) if one wishes to write a script to do the rough equivalent of what pkg_info -g does, then one has to be mindful of the fact that for those specific MD5 checksums contained in the various +CONTENTS files within the

Re: WANTED: Tool to verify installed package/port consistancy

Well, I have looked a bit more at some of the files that posted about just a short while ago. It turns out that pretty much all of the remaining anomolies (i.e. MD5 mismatches) in package-related or port- related files on my system can be attributed to either (a) some person or else (b) some

WTF?? portupgrade of bind 9.5.0-P1 = 9.5.0-P2 crashes and burns

Seems to be the exact same problem described here (for Linux), and in my case, also on an AMD 64 machine: http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:wfV3BUpO2d4J:www.topology.org/linux/bind_bigbug.html+undefined+reference+to+DH_generate_parameters_ex+bindhl=enct=clnkcd=5gl=us Is it really the AMD 64

firefox-29.0,1 -- dumps core

I recently built installed firefox-29.0,1 with debugging information. That was just a day or so ago. It has already dumped core twice. Here is some info from the most recent one: ... Core was generated by `firefox'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. #0

Re: firefox-29.0,1 -- dumps core

It just did it again. Apparently there is something that firefox-29.0,1 does not like about something at www.newegg.com. (A pity, since this is a very popular site.) Stack traceback looks about the same as before Core was generated by `firefox'. Program terminated with signal 11,

Re: firefox-29.0,1 -- dumps core

In message CAN6yY1u=Kt2R_sK=uzXa6M18t=bcx7qoymdxc9g8jng4y80...@mail.gmail.com Kevin Oberman rkober...@gmail.com wrote: No problems with www.newegg.com. Works fine for me. Two questions: 1) Are you running on an AMD platform? 2) When you ran your test, did you first rebuild reinstall

smplayer dependency on mplayer1

Looking at the Makefile for multimedia/smplayer it appears to me that smplayer is dependent upon the 1.x version of mplayer being installed, however there exists what I would guess is a later and better version of mplayer called multimedia/mplayer2 in the ports tree. So why is smplayer dependent

Re: firefox-29.0,1 -- dumps core

Please allow me to clarify two things: 1) The exact set of build options that are needed in order to reproduce the crash I have reported are as follows: DBUS (enabled by default) GIO (enabled by default) GSTREAMER (enabled by default) ALSA (enabled by

Need help getting docbook mess unsnarled

I rarely update my installed ports. I do it only every few months. Unfortunately, when I tried to do it a few days ago (using portupgrade -a) I neglected to read over the last several thousand lines of the UPDATING file, in particular this entry:

PORT META: Installed files conflict between ports

I just submitted the following PR: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=190027 I was a bit flabberghasted to believe that such file conflicts between ports was even possible. Seeing that it is possible prompted me to write the attached small Perl script, which can quickly find all such

multimedia/ffmpeg: pkg_add: leave_playpen: can't chdir back to ''

I built the latest multimedia/ffmpeg and now it won't install, due to the error(s) shown below. Is there a known fix for this? P.S. Apparently this error: pkg_add: leave_playpen: can't chdir back to '' has been publically discussed since at least January, 2012. In all that time, why

Re: multimedia/ffmpeg: pkg_add: leave_playpen: can't chdir back to ''

In message can6yy1vziebtf8ueotil9xrvrq_rzbkhlysn3qgduoruqje...@mail.gmail.com Kevin Oberman rkober...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette r...@tristatelogic.comwrote: ... share/doc/ffmpeg/swscale.txt: Could not unlink share/doc/ffmpeg/tablegen.txt: Could

Two questions about Firefox

1) Is anybody planning to work on this problem? http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=189991 2) How has it been possible to fix other problems in the FreeBSD port of Firefox if nobody is even able to run the thing when it has been built with debugging enabled? (May I

Firefox chokes up for several seconds... frequently

Firefox has, for me 9and on FreeBSD) always exhibited some amount of quirky behavior... occasionally freezing for several second or more, for no apparently good reason, during which time, clicking on *anything* within any of the open firefox windows simply produces no response whatsoever. Since

Re: Firefox chokes up for several seconds... frequently

I wrote: Since I last updated my ports a couple of weeks ago, the problem has gotten DRAMATICALLY worse. Now Firefox is choking up frequently, and for perhaps 10-20 second each time, on virutally every web site that I visit. NEVERMIND! I manually rebuilt and re-installed the

Re: Firefox chokes up for several seconds... frequently

In message 20140603042442.ge...@lena.kiev, l...@lena.kiev.ua wrote: From: Ronald F. Guilmette r...@tristatelogic.com In section 7.2.1.2. (Firefox and Adobe?? Flash?? Plugin) of the above Handbook page, Step #3 says: # ln -s /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-f10-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so

Re: Firefox chokes up for several seconds... frequently

In message 51901.1401770...@server1.tristatelogic.com, I wrote: I wrote: Since I last updated my ports a couple of weeks ago, the problem has gotten DRAMATICALLY worse. Now Firefox is choking up frequently, and for perhaps 10-20 second each time, on virutally every web site that I visit.

A simple ports question

Functionally, what is the difference between: pkg_delete Y and: cd /usr/ports/X/Y; make deinstall ? P.S. Yes, yes. I know. I am _supposed_ to be only using pkgng, but if you are able to do so, please answer my question anyway. ___

Re: Firefox chokes up for several seconds... frequently

In message 20140604195803.gj2...@home.opsec.eu, Kurt Jaeger li...@opsec.eu wrote: Hi! I spoke too soon. The problem is back again. As a friend of mine used to say Problems that go away by themselves come back by themselves. [...] Try changing gfx.xrender.enabled from True to False

Post-install messages

I am bringing up a new 10.3-RELEASE system from scratch. While doing so, I unfortunately rushed ahead and installed several packages I knew I needed using the "pkg install" command, but I neglected to look carefully at all of the helpful post-install messages for each package. Most of these

Re: Deriving base port/package names

In message <5707553c.40...@quip.cz>, Miroslav Lachman <000.f...@quip.cz> wrote: >If you have the index stripped to > >yorick-2.2.04_1 > >This will do the trick >sed 's/-[0-9a-z.,_+]*$//g' master-index.txt Thank you. Your response made me realize that there's an even simpler solution... sed

Re: Post-install messages

In message <5707fd13.2060...@gmx.de>, olli hauer wrote: >Try the command `pkg info -aD | less' or for a single package `pkg info -D $pa >ckagename' Thank you. That seems to do the trick nicely. ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing

Deriving base port/package names

Given a list of all current FreeBSD ports/package, such as a (plain text version) the list found here: https://www.freebsd.org/ports/master-index.html and assuming that all text past the ' -- ' has already been deleted from each line, what would be a proper sort of sed command to extract

p5-HTML-Tree -- missing dependency

Greetings, I have some old code I'm trying to get running again. It uses the Perl module HTML::TreeBuilder (aka www/p5-HTML-Tree). I did the following: # pkg install p5-HTML-Tree which completed with no problems, but now it appears that my installed version of HTML::TreeBuilder craps out at: