From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Feb 29 7:13:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from europe.std.com (europe.std.com [199.172.62.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E81A37B905 for ; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 07:13:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kwc@world.std.com) Received: from world.std.com (root@world-f.std.com [199.172.62.5]) by europe.std.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA18329; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 10:13:21 -0500 (EST) Received: (from kwc@localhost) by world.std.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA04016; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 10:11:03 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 10:11:03 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth W Cochran Message-Id: <200002291511.KAA04016@world.std.com> To: "Chris D. Faulhaber" Subject: Re: Trouble installing xpdf port in 3.4-stable Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wow! That was fast... :) >Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 09:28:54 -0500 (EST) >From: "Chris D. Faulhaber" >Subject: Re: Trouble installing xpdf port in 3.4-stable > >On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Kenneth W Cochran wrote: >> How can I get xpdf? >> >> Even though it shows up in the ports tree, the description says >> it is in both "graphics" & "print" but it is only listed in >> "graphics." >> >> Xpdf is not on *any* of the CDs. I could've sworn it was on >> previous CDs; how did it get left out? I'd think xpdf would be >> a "biggie..." > >Looking at ports/graphics/xpdf/Makefile, you will find: > >.if !defined(PACKAGE_BUILDING) >RESTRICTED= "Contains cryptography" >.endif > >which means that an xpdf package will not be built since it >contains cryptographic code (presumably to decrypt encrypted .pdf's). What? Amazing... I'd never have guessed *that*... I generally stay out of makefiles (at least "officially") & try to rely on the appropriate READMEs, etc. (Ie. I "start out" in "semi-dumb-user" mode... :) >> Configure stops ... >> >> So... What's up here? Btw, xpdf is not the only one that >> (mis)behaves like this; there have been a couple of others, but >> I can't remember them right now... > >It's difficult to debug without any real error messages. Feel >free to send errors/logs/etc to the MAINTAINER (found in the >port's Makefile) and/or ports@FreeBSD.org Done... Thanks... I guess I'll have to wait & see what I might hear from them... -kc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message