Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 09:56:37 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@brizzie.org> To: "Eric M Logan" <ericmlogan@mediaone.net> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "FreeBSD stable" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: about gftp... Message-ID: <105301c0df2d$02eb20a0$0300a8c0@oracle> References: <3B045CA0.EB04F335@mediaone.net> <103d01c0df2b$756fc1a0$0300a8c0@oracle> <3B046309.CD9C4CBD@mediaone.net>
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> Yeah, unfortunately this seems to be the only route available. Thanks to > those who responded, it's off to the source code for me. I've never used gftp .... I've tended to use nftp because its trivial to compile, always works properly, & a binary is available for W2K > > Doug Young wrote: > > > > since updating to 4.3 I've noticed that a lot of ports have been > > marked > > > broken. For instance, reportmagic, netscape*, and GFTP. Especially > > in > > > regards to Gftp, if a port is marked broken is that it? No more app > > and > > > deal with it? It's been suggested that the Makefile in the ports > > dir > > > could be modified so that the app can be installed anyway but what's > > the > > > proper thing to do as I don't want to install a port that has been > > > marked broken? Thanks. > > > > > I've been experiencing similar problems since I started using CVSUP in > > 4.2 & > > even after installing 4.3 RELEASE the problems continue. In most cases > > it > > appears to related to missing libraries or incompatible dependency. > > (eg I think > > its Webmin that insists on SSLeay but even though that was supposed to > > have > > been replaced by the OpenSSH thats included in default 4.3, the Webmin > > port > > isn't smart enough to know that. One of the experts told me about a > > workaround > > that seems to work, but I dunno that "workarounds" should be regarded > > as best > > practice. > > > > Now when I find something I want is broken / verboten / whatever I've > > been going > > to the homepage for the particular application, grabbing the source & > > compiling that. > > I suspect that may not be 100% kosher, but so far every one I've done > > that way > > has worked properly (fingers crossed) :) > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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