From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 28 12:46:42 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE33F106566B; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:46:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) Received: from mout7.freenet.de (mout7.freenet.de [IPv6:2001:748:100:40::2:9]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4619C8FC18; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:46:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [195.4.92.22] (helo=12.mx.freenet.de) by mout7.freenet.de with esmtpa (ID gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) (port 25) (Exim 4.69 #92) id 1N37vF-0001Cb-MS; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:46:41 +0100 Received: from t9ec3.t.pppool.de ([89.55.158.195]:49905 helo=ernst.jennejohn.org) by 12.mx.freenet.de with esmtpa (ID gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) (port 25) (Exim 4.69 #94) id 1N37vF-0008Ps-7m; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:46:41 +0100 Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:46:40 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn To: Adrian Glaubitz Message-ID: <20091028134640.58eb3cb9@ernst.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: <1e6df7760910280245y7717d74cn4cefc6a581c6260f@mail.gmail.com> References: <4AE79A4E.3070404@googlemail.com> <11167f520910271955q45c4109dqd2ada4959ce58db8@mail.gmail.com> <1e6df7760910280245y7717d74cn4cefc6a581c6260f@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.2 (GTK+ 2.16.2; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Sam Fourman Jr." , ports@freebsd.org, kmoore@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: qtcreator-1.2.1: Not installable X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: gary.jennejohn@freenet.de List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:46:42 -0000 On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:45:46 +0100 Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi > > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 3:55 AM, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Adrian Glaubitz > > wrote: > >> Hi there, > >> > >> I have a linux/qt4 software project that I wanted to test on FreeBSD as > >> well. I'm not really a FreeBSD user > >> but I am trying to get my code to build there. Anyway, it requires > >> "qtcreator" among other dependencies which > >> is not installable with "pkg_add" at the moment, > >> > >> "pkg_add -r qtcreator" > >> > >> tells me that the file at the given URL > >> (ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.2-release/Latest/qtcreator.tbz) > >> cannot be fetched. I am really not into *BSD so I can't tell I am doing > >> something wrong > >> but I guess the package seems to be missing on the mirrors. > > > > you could try to build it from source: > > > > cd /usr/ports/devel/qtcreator/ && make install clean > > Well, that was not really the answer I was looking for. I know how to > build things from source but that's not what I want, I want to use a > package manager to keep it simple. The idea of using a package manager > is that you just install a few packages and it pulls the necessary > dependencies automatically. I install "qtcreator" because it installs > all necessary packages to develop and build Qt-4 Apps, including > "qmake" and "uic". > > I want to put it into the manual for my project for FreeBSD: > > > > It's supposed to be a quick and dirty guide on howto build on FreeBSD. > The qtcreator port was created on May 7, 2009. Seems to me that 7.2R is older than that. Obviously, qtcreator can't exist for 7.2R if the port didn't exist when it was released. --- Gary Jennejohn