ports/124083: net/vnc is not building the xorg vnc module
Josh Carroll
josh.carroll at gmail.com
Mon Oct 27 13:30:09 UTC 2008
The following reply was made to PR ports/124083; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: "Josh Carroll" <josh.carroll at gmail.com>
To: "Stefan Walter" <stefan at freebsd.org>
Cc: GNATS <FreeBSD-gnats-submit at freebsd.org>,
"Curtis Hacker" <hakcenter at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: ports/124083: net/vnc is not building the xorg vnc module
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 08:53:35 -0400
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 5:13 AM, Stefan Walter <stefan at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Hi Josh,
>
> Josh Carroll, 14.10.08, 19:44h CEST:
>
>> Stefan,
>>
>> No, I emailed Mark a couple of weeks ago to inform him my test/dev/etc
>> machine was dead, and that I did not have an ETA for resolution -
>> which ultimately means I cannot take ownership of this port,
>> unfortunately. I have not heard back from him, though, so I'm not sure
>> how to proceed at this point.
>
> OK - if you want to drop maintainership for the port, let me know.
Unfortunately, I think I will have to drop maintainership. Work and family
has been keeping me extremely busy and I have not had a chance to
work on fixing the machine I use for development. I apologize for the
inconvenience, but at this time I'm not able to dedicate the time needed
for this port maintenance.
> So, at least for now the port should be marked as BROKEN, anyway. I had a
> look at the RealVNC web site, and there is version 4.1.3 of the source
> code for download. Somebody who uses this software will eventually have to
> update the port and fix it. (By the way: is there a recommendable
> alternative to this VNC server in the ports collection?)
It's possible 4.1.3 addresses some of the open bug reports both for building
and/or runtime issues. It may be worth trying the 4.1.3-based source first
to see if it builds properly. Unfortunately, I can only try to see if
it builds on
7.1-PRERELEASE/amd64 and not other releases. I'll see if I can do that
sometime this week and report here if I have success.
As for a VNC alternative, there is NX, but last I checked it also is unavailable
on amd64. If you have a real X display, you can use the net/x11vnc port
which I've found works fine, but is slower than the VNC 4 based solution.
Thanks,
Josh
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