From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 4 20:41:14 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A43B1065670 for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2012 20:41:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from itetcu@FreeBSD.org) Received: from worf.ds9.tecnik93.com (worf.ds9.tecnik93.com [81.196.207.130]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7DBE8FC12 for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2012 20:41:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from it.buh.tecnik93.com (unknown [188.27.101.30]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by worf.ds9.tecnik93.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 47E3922C519A; Mon, 4 Jun 2012 23:41:07 +0300 (EEST) Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 23:41:05 +0300 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu To: Juergen Lock Message-ID: <20120604234105.1cb17b82@it.buh.tecnik93.com> In-Reply-To: <201206041750.q54HoqVf049140@triton8.kn-bremen.de> References: <20120604120054.GA1849@tiny> <201206041750.q54HoqVf049140@triton8.kn-bremen.de> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.6; amd64-portbld-freebsd9.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: guru@unixarea.de, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: net-im/skype-devel 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: Mon, 04 Jun 2012 20:41:14 -0000 On Mon, 4 Jun 2012 19:50:52 +0200 (CEST) Juergen Lock wrote: > In article <20120604120054.GA1849@tiny> you write: > >Hi, > Hi! > > > >I run 10-CURRENT r235646 and CVS updated ports (both from May, 19); > > > >skype-2.1.0.81,1 is working fine, uncluding viedo: the port > >net-im/skype-devel still says, that video is broken; > > > >is there some pre-view to test or to help debugging? > > I'm not itetcu but... > > Skype is closed source so it's not easy to find out why video > doesn't work with the version in net-im/skype-devel, but IIRC > linux_kdump showed it's trying to use the Linux inotify syscall > which is still missing in the Linuxolator. Is this the cause video > doesn't work? Last time I tested, yes, that was one of the problems. Current beta from skype is at .99, you could give it a try, but I don't expect anything better. And upcoming 3 is even worse. > Only those with the source know... Well, yeh. Trouble is linux version has the lowest priority (and the user base is constant, unlike the user base for the other versions); and while the skype devs are really nice people, there's a high level of "institutional legal paranoia" which doesn't help at all. So ... -- IOnut - Un^d^dregistered ;) FreeBSD "user" "Intellectual Property" is nowhere near as valuable as "Intellect" FreeBSD committer -> itetcu@FreeBSD.org, PGP Key ID 057E9F8B493A297B