libsmbclient not built - SMB support absent

[Rob Mason]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 06:59:56PM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 23:37 +0000, Rob Mason wrote:
> > 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...
> 
> It can't be made an option.  If libsmbclient is present on the system,
> gnome-vfs will use it.  You can always define WITH_SAMBA
> in /etc/make.conf if you want this to happen even if libsmbclient isn't
> already installed.
> 
> Joe
> 
> > 
> > Rob
> > 
> > 

I must confess that I wasn't aware of the 'WITH_SAMBA' option.  I'm sure
that many users will expect out-of-the-box SMB support (after all, ssh
and ftp are supported automatically).

An FAQ entry perhaps?  

Rob