On 15 November 2016 at 10:39, John Marino <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/15/2016 12:34, jungle Boogie wrote: >> >> On 15 November 2016 at 05:37, John Marino <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> Use the dport /usr/dport/archivers/zstd. It has existed for months >>> already. >>> >> >> Sure, great idea, but any idea why sudo gmake install would fail? >> > > > You *do* understand that ports are recipes for how to build things on > specific platforms? They "fix" problems with vendor scripts. It's rare > that a vendor build file works out of the box without modification. > > in a way, ports are a knowledge repository for all these tricks. > > You should not be surprised when building yourself results in failure. It's > very easy to skip requirements or not have valuable fixes. It's almost > naive to expect these to work. >
I am surprised because a) someone on the github issue downloaded dfly and built zstd without any issue; b) zstd built fine on freebsd 11-release > If you really care about the answer to your question then study the port and > see what it's doing differently than you, and then you'll understand the > root problem. I see only this change: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/archivers/zstd/Makefile?r1=425157&r2=425457 Anyway, thanks for maintaining the port. I'll install the package on dragonfly. > > John > >
