Date: 13 Sep 2002 13:48:20 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: alane@geeksrus.net Cc: FreeBSD Ports List <ports@FreeBSD.ORG>, FreeBSD Gnome Team <gnome@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: fork bombs registering packages using GNOMENG Message-ID: <1031939300.657.31.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <20020913173752.GA53609@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> References: <20020913173752.GA53609@wwweasel.geeksrus.net>
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On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 13:37, Alan E wrote: > I've noticed a distressing trend in ports which use the GNOMENG > configuration interface. If you set USE_GNOME on the make command line, > the port is likely to fork makes until it can't fork anymore - each one > forks a child, which forks a child, which ... up to thousands of them. > > For example, irc/xchat: "make USE_GNOME=gtk12 package" will fork bomb > during the registering package phase of the post-installation code. Why are you doing this? This is wrong. You should never specify USE_* on the make command line. If you're trying to enforce GNOME dependence, use: make -DWITH_GNOME package > > There's something seriously wrong here. I'm using an absolutely > up-to-date ports tree (updated every 2 hours). Does anybody have a clue > as to how this could be happening? > > Personally, I don't think the GNOMENG code was ready for prime time, > and the ports were not updated thoroughtly. Two ports so far, xmms and > sdl12, can't turn off esound support without Makefile modifications. > I'm sure there are others. BTW Max could you please commit the fix to > sdl12? I cc'd you on the pr. Thanks. This has nothing to do with GNOMENG. Apparently xmms was broken even under the old GNOME infrastructure. No where in bsd.gnome.mk does it pass --disable-esound to configure. Since sobomax is the maintainer of sdl12, I think I'll let him do the commit. I agree there were some problems with the switch-over. I'm trying to get those cleaned up. However, I think the problems you're describing are a mix of user error and pre-existing bugs. Joe > > -- > Alan Eldridge > Unix/C(++) IT Pro, 20 yrs, seeking new employment. > (http://wwweasel.geeksrus.net/~alane/resume.txt) > KDE, KDE-FreeBSD Teams (http://www.kde.org, http://freebsd.kde.org/) > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message > -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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