From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 26 10:40:24 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 366AC16A4CF for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2005 10:40:24 +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 2F6BE43D53 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2005 10:40:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from masonr@bsdbox.homeunix.com) Received: from bsdbox.homeunix.com (localhost.bsdbox [127.0.0.1]) by bsdbox.homeunix.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j0QAeF4L004611 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 26 Jan 2005 10:40:16 GMT (envelope-from masonr@bsdbox.homeunix.com) Received: (from masonr@localhost) by bsdbox.homeunix.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j0QAeFb8004610; Wed, 26 Jan 2005 10:40:15 GMT (envelope-from masonr@bsdbox.homeunix.com) Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 10:40:14 +0000 From: Rob Mason To: Joe Marcus Clarke Message-ID: <20050126104014.GA4598@bsdbox.homeunix.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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1106697596.16118.3.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i 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: Rob Mason 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: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 10:40:24 -0000 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