Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 21:44:55 +0100 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@flat.berklix.net> To: Daniel Valencia <fetrovsky@yahoo.com> Cc: trevor@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: print/acroread7 on amd64 Message-ID: <200602082044.k18Kitjr089481@fire.jhs.private> In-Reply-To: Message from Daniel Valencia <fetrovsky@yahoo.com> of "Wed, 08 Feb 2006 11:47:46 PST." <20060208194746.5452.qmail@web53903.mail.yahoo.com>
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Daniel Valencia wrote: > hello > > print/acroread7 fails to build in my amd64 system... the problem is that it can't seem to find the following file: > > gtk2-2.4.14-4.fc3.3.amd64.rpm > > > It seems to have tried dozens of different places, and it finally gave up. Afterwards, I updated the ports tree, tried again, and I get the same output. Is there anything I can do to get it running without resorting to the linux binaries? Several Things: (& as this is a general answer ti's applicable to other new folk who may care to read on) 1) Don't cross post ie cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org , freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org (as list charter states it's deprecated) so I dropped freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org from CC for you. 2) mail `grep MAINTAINER /pub/FreeBSD/branches/-current/ports/print/acroread7` rather than mailing the list that's trevor@FreeBSD.org who I added to the CC 3) Use any web search engine eg google (but I see that doesn't work in this rare case) Works a treat though if one is looking for obscure old distfiles (eg I have a laptop here that won't upgrade beyond 5.1, & I found a load of distfiles that fetch failed on with google) 4) Cruise the source of a previous distribvution, eg gtk2 looking for URLs for wherever they store their current stuff. -- Julian Stacey. Consultant Unix Net & Sys. Eng., Munich. http://berklix.com Mail in Ascii, HTML=spam. Ihr Rauch = meine allergischen Kopfschmerzen.
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