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Date:      20 Mar 2003 21:56:37 +0100
From:      Matthias Szupryczynski <silk_worm@gmx.net>
To:        freeBSD-newbies <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   ImageMagick --> compilation problem 5.0 current --> port system
Message-ID:  <1048193797.633.45.camel@arwen.lindenstrasse>

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Hi everybody,

I guess it is my turn to ask some newbie question here ;)

Asus L8400b Laptop, running FreeBSD 5.0 current. After fetching the port
and world sources with cvsup, building and installing both world and
kernel, I installed XFree86-4 and Gnome2 using the ports. Then I was
trying to install Gnome2-fifth-toe using the ports, but the system was
aborting while trying to compile ImageMagick-5.5.5 because of a missing
link in an internal ImageMagick header file. I do not list the screen
output here because I was able to bypass it by installing ImageMagick
using the precompiled package with pkg_add -r. 

The reason for my posting is that I would like to understand how the
system works. Being fairly new to FreeBSD, I thought that the source
code distributed over the ports is supposed to be error prone since it
is tested before commited to the ports tree. Or is that to be expected
when I am running the current branch instead of stable ? 

And if errors like this one are to be expected, should I report them ?
If so, to whom ?

Thanks

Matt






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