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Date:      Tue, 25 Jan 2005 23:37:06 +0000
From:      Rob Mason <rob@bsdbox.homeunix.com>
To:        Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
Cc:        freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: libsmbclient not built - SMB support absent
Message-ID:  <1106696226.77025.5.camel@dexter.bsdbox>
In-Reply-To: <1106611893.28710.56.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
References:  <20050124223933.GA38590@bsdbox.homeunix.com> <1106611893.28710.56.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>

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On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 19:11 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 22:39 +0000, Rob Mason wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Just built a new FBSD-5-RELEASE box, cvsup'd the ports, and run:
> > 
> > cd /usr/ports/gnome2
> > make install clean
> > 
> > The resulting Gnome-2.8.2 desktop does not handle SMB shares.  A quick
> > check shows that 'libsmbclient' is not automatically built.  The
> > Makefile for gnomevfs2-2.8.3_1 only builds SMB support _if_ libsmbclient
> > is pre-installed.  Surely this should be a dependency???
> 
> It is, just not a required one.
> 
> Joe
> 

This seems confusing.  If it is optional then shouldn't there be a 'make
config' switch to make this clear to the user?  This isn't a criticism -
merely suggestion to make Gnome on BSD a more friendly distro...

Rob



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