From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 15 04:46:12 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FCBB16A415 for ; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 04:46:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jcw@highperformance.net) Received: from mx1.highperformance.net (dsl081-163-122.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [64.81.163.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09C2E43CA1 for ; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 04:44:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jcw@highperformance.net) Received: from [192.168.1.16] (w16.stradamotorsports.com [192.168.1.16]) by mx1.highperformance.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kBF4k5ws006057 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 20:46:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcw@highperformance.net) Message-ID: <45822894.5010305@highperformance.net> Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 20:46:12 -0800 From: "Jason C. Wells" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=2.5 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on s4.stradamotorsports.com Subject: 6.2 Ports Work Well 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: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 04:46:12 -0000 I would like to thank the ports team for a good job with the RELEASE_6_2 ports tree. I was able to compile all of KDE and all of Gnome with minimal fuss. The last time I built this stuff I had problems with a variety of dependency issues. I did have a slight bit of fuss building packages recursively. The key difficulty was that the some builds would detect installed libraries and complete successfully. (as they should) The build of several package tarballs would fail because a certain file in the packing list wasn't found. I am pretty sure this was because the installed port wasn't the same version as the one in the ports tree. After the first couple of these errors I did an unconditional deinstall of the ports "world" (my build machine was pretty crufty anyway, having much leftover stuff from 4X days even) and was able to build gnome and KDE and all tarballs without complaint. That's a pretty significant accomplishment from where I sit. Thanks! Portupgrade and friends are able to do a monumental task with some sensibility and grace. I can imagine how hard it is to get a build done on a chunk of software as large as say Windows done when everyone is working for the same organization, using the same tools, languages, compilers and so forth. I have friends up here who vanish when it's build time in Redmond. That the ports crew pulls all the diversity of open source together in a fairly well integrated system is commendable. Later, Jason C. Wells