Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 10:40:14 +0000 From: Rob Mason <masonr@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: <20050126104014.GA4598@bsdbox.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <1106697596.16118.3.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <20050124223933.GA38590@bsdbox.homeunix.com> <1106611893.28710.56.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <1106696226.77025.5.camel@dexter.bsdbox> <1106697596.16118.3.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 06:59:56PM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 23:37 +0000, Rob Mason wrote: > > 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... > > It can't be made an option. If libsmbclient is present on the system, > gnome-vfs will use it. You can always define WITH_SAMBA > in /etc/make.conf if you want this to happen even if libsmbclient isn't > already installed. > > Joe > > > > > Rob > > > > I must confess that I wasn't aware of the 'WITH_SAMBA' option. I'm sure that many users will expect out-of-the-box SMB support (after all, ssh and ftp are supported automatically). An FAQ entry perhaps? Rob
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