Problems Building xchat-2.8.6_5 from ports

Koop Mast kwm at rainbow-runner.nl
Mon May 17 09:48:41 UTC 2010


On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 03:25 -0500, billy wrote:
> Hello, I am having problems building Xchat from ports. I have updated my 
> ports with cvsup today so everything is current. I am running 8.0-STABLE. 
> The build completes fine but there is no xchat executable in 
> /usr/local/bin/xchat. I talked to some quite knowledgable people in 
> ##freebsd on freenode and after trying some things they recommended i 
> contact the maintainer.
> 
> I have attached some logs that i hope will help you find the problem.
> 
> pkginfol.log -   is the output from pkg_info -L xchat\*
> options - /var/db/ports/xchat/options file
> build.log - cd /usr/ports/irc/xchat && make install clean > build.log
> pkg_info.log - log from pkg_info (give you an idea of what i have installed)
> ls.log - is a file with the ls /usr/local/bin/xchat  and the directory 
> listings for the xchat ports work directory. 
> 
> I would really appreciate some help with this. I hope i didn't leave out any 
> needed information. If there is any other information that you need please 
> contact me as soon as possible. Thank you very much for your time. I look 
> forward to hearing from you soon.

The mailing list seems to have eaten the attachements. Can you send the
actual build error and config.log (in work/xchat-2.8.6/)?

> Sincerely,
> billy



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