From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 8 20:44:04 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E82D16A420; Wed, 8 Feb 2006 20:44:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhs@flat.berklix.net) Received: from thin.berklix.org (thin.berklix.org [194.246.123.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81E5743D46; Wed, 8 Feb 2006 20:44:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhs@flat.berklix.net) Received: from js.berklix.net (p549A5176.dip.t-dialin.net [84.154.81.118]) (authenticated bits=128) by thin.berklix.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k18Khuc2036397; Wed, 8 Feb 2006 21:43:57 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jhs@flat.berklix.net) Received: from fire.jhs.private (fire.jhs.private [192.168.91.41]) by js.berklix.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k18Khq9A025758; Wed, 8 Feb 2006 21:43:52 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jhs@flat.berklix.net) Received: from fire.jhs.private (localhost.jhs.private [127.0.0.1]) by fire.jhs.private (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k18Kitjr089481; Wed, 8 Feb 2006 21:44:55 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jhs@fire.jhs.private) Message-Id: <200602082044.k18Kitjr089481@fire.jhs.private> To: Daniel Valencia In-Reply-To: Message from Daniel Valencia of "Wed, 08 Feb 2006 11:47:46 PST." <20060208194746.5452.qmail@web53903.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 21:44:55 +0100 From: "Julian H. Stacey" Cc: trevor@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: print/acroread7 on amd64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 20:44:04 -0000 Daniel Valencia wrote: > hello > > print/acroread7 fails to build in my amd64 system... the problem is that it can't seem to find the following file: > > gtk2-2.4.14-4.fc3.3.amd64.rpm > > > It seems to have tried dozens of different places, and it finally gave up. Afterwards, I updated the ports tree, tried again, and I get the same output. Is there anything I can do to get it running without resorting to the linux binaries? Several Things: (& as this is a general answer ti's applicable to other new folk who may care to read on) 1) Don't cross post ie cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org , freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org (as list charter states it's deprecated) so I dropped freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org from CC for you. 2) mail `grep MAINTAINER /pub/FreeBSD/branches/-current/ports/print/acroread7` rather than mailing the list that's trevor@FreeBSD.org who I added to the CC 3) Use any web search engine eg google (but I see that doesn't work in this rare case) Works a treat though if one is looking for obscure old distfiles (eg I have a laptop here that won't upgrade beyond 5.1, & I found a load of distfiles that fetch failed on with google) 4) Cruise the source of a previous distribvution, eg gtk2 looking for URLs for wherever they store their current stuff. -- Julian Stacey. Consultant Unix Net & Sys. Eng., Munich. http://berklix.com Mail in Ascii, HTML=spam. Ihr Rauch = meine allergischen Kopfschmerzen.