Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 23:37:06 +0000 From: Rob Mason <rob@bsdbox.homeunix.com> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libsmbclient not built - SMB support absent Message-ID: <1106696226.77025.5.camel@dexter.bsdbox> In-Reply-To: <1106611893.28710.56.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <20050124223933.GA38590@bsdbox.homeunix.com> <1106611893.28710.56.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 19:11 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 22:39 +0000, Rob Mason wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Just built a new FBSD-5-RELEASE box, cvsup'd the ports, and run: > > > > cd /usr/ports/gnome2 > > make install clean > > > > The resulting Gnome-2.8.2 desktop does not handle SMB shares. A quick > > check shows that 'libsmbclient' is not automatically built. The > > Makefile for gnomevfs2-2.8.3_1 only builds SMB support _if_ libsmbclient > > is pre-installed. Surely this should be a dependency??? > > It is, just not a required one. > > Joe > This seems confusing. If it is optional then shouldn't there be a 'make config' switch to make this clear to the user? This isn't a criticism - merely suggestion to make Gnome on BSD a more friendly distro... Rob
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