a simple question about ports
Why are ports sometimes released, when they are uncompileable ? -- Regards Cliff [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: a simple question about ports
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Cliff Sarginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > Why are ports sometimes released, when they are uncompileable ? Lots of different reasons, the most likely one being that they compiled file on the committers box. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: a simple question about ports
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 12:39:13PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Cliff Sarginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > > Why are ports sometimes released, when they are uncompileable ? > > Lots of different reasons, the most likely one being that they > compiled file on the committers box. > And aye there's the rub. -- Regards Cliff [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: a simple question about ports
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Cliff Sarginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 12:39:13PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Cliff Sarginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > > > Why are ports sometimes released, when they are uncompileable ? > > Lots of different reasons, the most likely one being that they > > compiled fine on the committers box. > And aye there's the rub. I've found that most maintainers are willing to try and fix ports that don't compile in your environment. You can't expect a bug to be fixed unless you report it to someone who can fix it. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: a simple question about ports
In the last episode (Mar 02), Cliff Sarginson said: > Why are ports sometimes released, when they are uncompileable ? More details please. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: a simple question about ports
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 01:42:31PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Cliff Sarginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > > On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 12:39:13PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > > > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Cliff Sarginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > > > > Why are ports sometimes released, when they are uncompileable ? > > > Lots of different reasons, the most likely one being that they > > > compiled fine on the committers box. > > And aye there's the rub. > > I've found that most maintainers are willing to try and fix ports that > don't compile in your environment. You can't expect a bug to be fixed > unless you report it to someone who can fix it. > Let us straighten a few things out here, the perpetuation of this kind of nonsense puts us back in the dark Lord of Redmond world. A language is a language. Ok GCC has groovy extras to allow FreeBSD and Linux to compile. I expect that "Hello. world" will compile link and run .. yes ? Does it matter very much what CPU I have, how much memory etc..? Linking, Now we have another story. It is quite educational to find thet KDE has a dependency on a game program ;) Yup it sure does. I know people put in precious spare time to just about the best OS on the planet. But "portupgrade" just does not hack it. Ok. End of story. Otherwise I will get banned again by the inner corpus. Let us make it better. -- Regards Cliff [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
