Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 10:33:57 -0400 From: "Troy Settle" <troy@picus.com> To: <up@3.am> Cc: "FreeBSD ISP List" <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: gd dependancies WAS: Simple traffic accounting Message-ID: <NIEBLEDADLBOBAJFKPHDGEBICAAA.troy@picus.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005050858340.62344-100000@richard2.pil.net>
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James, A lot of people have been bitching about this for a long time. Unfortunately, nobody has offered up a solution yet. (dunno what's so hard about setting these ports up so that they build with X if availiable, build without X if not availiable) For most items depending on GD, I've found that installing the gd package is the easiest workaround for this. G'luck, -Troy ** -----Original Message----- ** From: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG ** [mailto:owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of up@3.am ** Sent: Friday, May 05, 2000 9:21 AM ** To: Doug Barton ** Cc: FreeBSD ISP List ** Subject: gd dependancies WAS: Simple traffic accounting ** ** ** On Thu, 4 May 2000, Doug Barton wrote: ** ** > > This is the site of Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG). It ** > > is free! ** > ** > Better yet, use the port. It will handle the dependency on ** gd for you. ** > Wish I had that for solaris.... ** ** This brings me to a problem I had trying to use the port for webalizer, ** which is also dependant on gd. In 3.4-RELEASE, attempting to ** install that ** port results in a veritable avalanch of dependancies, starting with gd, ** which then wants to install a 400MB X server (!), among other things. ** ** Is this neccessary? I'd really rather not have X on a web ** server...in any ** case, it eventually won't install it anyway, because gd is looking for ** "xmkmf": ** ** su-2.03# make NO_CHECKSUM=yes install ** ===> Extracting for webalizer-1.30.4 ** ===> webalizer-1.30.4 depends on shared library: gd.0 - not found ** ===> Verifying install for gd.0 in /usr/ports/graphics/gd ** ===> Extracting for gd-1.7.3 ** ===> gd-1.7.3 depends on shared library: png.3 - found ** ===> gd-1.7.3 depends on shared library: ttf.4 - found ** ===> gd-1.7.3 depends on shared library: Xpm.4 - not found ** ===> Verifying install for Xpm.4 in /usr/ports/graphics/xpm ** ===> Configuring for xpm-3.4k ** xmkmf: not found ** *** Error code 127 ** ** Stop. ** ** the file actually does exist in other ports collections: ** ** su-2.03# locate xmkmf ** <snip> ** /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/FWF/files/xmkmf ** ** so I copy that to something in my path, and I get this: ** ** su-2.03# make NO_CHECKSUM=yes install ** ===> Extracting for webalizer-1.30.4 ** ===> webalizer-1.30.4 depends on shared library: gd.0 - not found ** ===> Verifying install for gd.0 in /usr/ports/graphics/gd ** ===> Extracting for gd-1.7.3 ** ===> gd-1.7.3 depends on shared library: png.3 - found ** ===> gd-1.7.3 depends on shared library: ttf.4 - found ** ===> gd-1.7.3 depends on shared library: Xpm.4 - not found ** ===> Verifying install for Xpm.4 in /usr/ports/graphics/xpm ** ===> Configuring for xpm-3.4k ** imake: not found ** make: don't know how to make Makefiles. Stop ** *** Error code 2 ** ** Stop. ** *** Error code 1 ** ** Stop. ** ** You know the ports collection *usually* makes life easier... :-/ ** ** James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor ** up@3.am http://3.am ========================================================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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