And just after I sent that, I thought of something I should also add. Zenoss Core is OSS, so patches are generally welcome to make it work better in your environment. So are documentation in the Community. -- James Pulver Information Technology Area Supervisor LEPP Computer Group Cornell University
lcligny wrote, On 9/3/2009 4:31 AM: > 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. > > > > > -------------------- m2f -------------------- > > Read this topic online here: > http://forums.zenoss.com/viewtopic.php?p=38841#38841 > > -------------------- m2f -------------------- > > > > _______________________________________________ > zenoss-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users _______________________________________________ zenoss-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users
