print/acroread7 on amd64

Frank Laszlo laszlof at vonostingroup.com
Thu Feb 9 11:53:33 PST 2006


Daniel Valencia wrote:
> than you all very much for your comments and suggestions, installing linux-gtk2 and then acroread7 worked very well... odd, since I would've thought acroread7 would install linux-gtk2 properly if needed...
>  
>  Thanks!
>  
>  - Daniel
>  
>
> Alexander Leidinger <netchild at FreeBSD.org> wrote: "Julian H. Stacey"  wrote:
>
>   
>> Several Things: (& as this is a general answer ti's applicable to other
>>   new folk who may care to read on)
>>     
>
> In the general case I agree, but in this specific case I have to add some
> comments...
>
>   
>> 2) mail `grep MAINTAINER 
>> /pub/FreeBSD/branches/-current/ports/print/acroread7`
>>  rather than mailing the list
>>   that's trevor at FreeBSD.org who I added to the CC
>>     
>
> Trevor is not very responsive. Have a look at the PR's which are assigned to
> Trevor and how long there's absolutely no trace of action from his side.
>
> Not mailing the maintainer (by intend or not) *in this case* was right. I
> even think I will play devil's advocate and give back some of Trevor's ports
> (at least those with an open PR without feedback from Trevor) back to ports at .
> A maintainer timeout of ~5 months justifies this.
>
> Hey Trevor, this is a "please speak up" for you!
>
>   
>> 4) Cruise the source of a previous distribvution, eg gtk2
>>   looking for URLs for wherever they store their current stuff.
>>     
>
> Doesn't help in this case, it's a bug in acroread7 and/or bsd.port.mk
> (depending on your POV). The suggestion in another mail to just install
> linux-gtk2 by hand is the work-around which has to be used here.
>
> Bye,
> Alexander.
>
>   

See ports/91911. This isnt a bug in acroread7, its a bug in the way
linux-* ports are modifying ARCH.

Regards,
    Frank Laszlo


[1] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/91911


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