Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 19:37:29 -0800 From: Ben Munat <bent@munat.com> To: FreeBSD User Questions List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: gnomeapplets build failure Message-ID: <422291F9.6080004@munat.com> In-Reply-To: <1109554116.39851.36.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <42226EF2.9080300@munat.com> <1109554116.39851.36.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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Ah. Thanks. That did it. Maybe the build script should just check for the existence of the kernel source and error out immediately with an informative message rather than print a message that just flies by amidst thousands of lines of output? Ben Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 17:08 -0800, Ben Munat wrote: > >>Hello. I've been using gentoo for awhile, but when a disk failure meant a reinstall of my >>OS, I figured I'd give FreeBSD a shot. I got my system up and running fairly quickly by >>using all binary packages off the CD. Liked the quickness of that, but I've been >>struggling to get everything upgraded to the latest versions from the ports tree ever >>since. Maybe I've been doing stuff wrong, but I've had about a dozen build failures, >>mostly due to portupgrade's reluctance to upgrade some packages. I've slowly whittled away >>at these by deinstalling/reinstalling and I'm down to two packages... gnomeapplets and >>gnome2-lite. But now I get a real build error and I'm stuck... something to do with acpi. >>I'll paste the output below. Would appreciate any help. > > > Read the message that's printed when you start to build gnomeapplets2. > You need the FreeBSD kernel source installed in /usr/src (or you need to > set the FREEBSD_SYS variable to point to the location where the kernel > source is installed). > > Hopefully, this need will go away in the future when the ACPI headers > are copied to /usr/include. > > Joe >
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