From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 9 19:53:33 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 64E5F16A422 for ; Thu, 9 Feb 2006 19:53:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from laszlof@vonostingroup.com) Received: from ritamari.vonostingroup.com (ritamari.vonostingroup.com [216.144.193.230]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48FC943D60 for ; Thu, 9 Feb 2006 19:53:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from laszlof@vonostingroup.com) Received: from adsl-68-72-248-38.dsl.sfldmi.ameritech.net ([68.72.248.38] helo=[192.168.1.33]) by ritamari.vonostingroup.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.60 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1F7HrF-000KiQ-Bv; Thu, 09 Feb 2006 14:53:37 -0500 Message-ID: <43EB9DB2.4000109@vonostingroup.com> Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 14:53:22 -0500 From: Frank Laszlo User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Valencia References: <20060209183211.21751.qmail@web53909.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20060209183211.21751.qmail@web53909.mail.yahoo.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.93.2.0 OpenPGP: url=http://www.franksworld.org/~laszlof/keys/0x0B3FCA4B.asc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - ritamari.vonostingroup.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [26 6] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - vonostingroup.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Cc: 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: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 19:53:33 -0000 Daniel Valencia wrote: > than you all very much for your comments and suggestions, installing linux-gtk2 and then acroread7 worked very well... odd, since I would've thought acroread7 would install linux-gtk2 properly if needed... > > Thanks! > > - Daniel > > > Alexander Leidinger wrote: "Julian H. Stacey" wrote: > > >> Several Things: (& as this is a general answer ti's applicable to other >> new folk who may care to read on) >> > > In the general case I agree, but in this specific case I have to add some > comments... > > >> 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 >> > > Trevor is not very responsive. Have a look at the PR's which are assigned to > Trevor and how long there's absolutely no trace of action from his side. > > Not mailing the maintainer (by intend or not) *in this case* was right. I > even think I will play devil's advocate and give back some of Trevor's ports > (at least those with an open PR without feedback from Trevor) back to ports@. > A maintainer timeout of ~5 months justifies this. > > Hey Trevor, this is a "please speak up" for you! > > >> 4) Cruise the source of a previous distribvution, eg gtk2 >> looking for URLs for wherever they store their current stuff. >> > > Doesn't help in this case, it's a bug in acroread7 and/or bsd.port.mk > (depending on your POV). The suggestion in another mail to just install > linux-gtk2 by hand is the work-around which has to be used here. > > Bye, > Alexander. > > See ports/91911. This isnt a bug in acroread7, its a bug in the way linux-* ports are modifying ARCH. Regards, Frank Laszlo [1] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/91911