From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 25 23:37:08 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFEDC16A4CE for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2005 23:37:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from bsdbox.homeunix.com (82-38-9-249.cable.ubr02.barn.blueyonder.co.uk [82.38.9.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4064B43D49 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2005 23:37:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rob@bsdbox.homeunix.com) Received: from dexter.bsdbox (dexter.bsdbox [192.168.200.99]) by bsdbox.homeunix.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j0PNb1i7000626; Tue, 25 Jan 2005 23:37:02 GMT (envelope-from rob@bsdbox.homeunix.com) From: Rob Mason To: Joe Marcus Clarke In-Reply-To: <1106611893.28710.56.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <20050124223933.GA38590@bsdbox.homeunix.com> <1106611893.28710.56.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 23:37:06 +0000 Message-Id: <1106696226.77025.5.camel@dexter.bsdbox> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -2.82 () ALL_TRUSTED X-Anti-Virus: Scanned by F-Prot Antivirus (http://www.f-prot.com) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.49 on 192.168.200.254 cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libsmbclient not built - SMB support absent X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 23:37:09 -0000 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