Hello,

I'm trying to install zenoss core 2.4.2 on FreeBSD 7.2 and I'm wondering why 
zenoss builds its own dependencies when these are already available in the 
ports tree. This leads to problems building dependencies that are shipped with 
zenoss where we could just build dependencies available on ports or use 
packages of them, and let zenoss uses them. It seems to be a MS Windows 
platform way to install software.

Here's the error I fall into when building zenoss with the hacks needed to 
build in FreeBSD:

gmake[1]: Nothing to be done for `unix'.
gmake[1]: Leaving directory 
`/usr/home/laurent/zenoss-2.4.2/build/freetype-2.3.7'
"./builds/toplevel.mk", line 50: Need an operator
"./builds/toplevel.mk", line 52: Missing dependency operator
"./builds/toplevel.mk", line 54: Need an operator
"./builds/toplevel.mk", line 55: Need an operator
"./builds/toplevel.mk", line 64: Could not find ./objs/modules.cfg
"./builds/toplevel.mk", line 86: Missing dependency operator
"./builds/toplevel.mk", line 88: Need an operator
Error expanding embedded variable.
gmake: *** [/home/laurent/zenoss-2.4.2/build/rrddeps-build] Error 2
unable to build zenoss and prerequisites, see zenbuild.log

It seems to be problem building freetype, and the saddest think is that I 
already have a working freetype2 port installed on my system:

pkg_info | grep freetype
freetype2-2.3.9_1   A free and portable TrueType font rendering engine

I'm actually a user of Zabbix monitoring software. Your solution seems to be 
more powerfull, but the hacky way to install it is not going to help people to 
use it.

Sorry to be not so kind, but someone had to say it :?

I will continue try to get it work on my system anyway.




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