Why are you NOT using FreeBSD --> an example

Wed Jun 13 04:20:21 UTC 2012

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 09:53:04AM +0700, Erich wrote:
> Hi,

Hi, Do we really need another one of these pointless rambling threads...

> 
> I placed FreeBSD 10 on an empty disk and downloaded then the ports tree from yesterday.
> 
> /etc/make/conf looks like this:
> 
> # Uncomment this if you want to do port builds with no interaction
> #BATCH=yes
> 
> # Keep KDE4 in /usr/local, fixes sharing of icons / mime and others
> KDE4_PREFIX=/usr/local
> # added by use.perl 2012-01-05 20:44:40
> PERL_VERSION=5.12.4
> #
> # 12.06.12 ed: added to support new Intel KMS.
> #
> WITH_NEW_XORG=true
> 

New user probably would not have gotten to this point... Just sayin.

> All the rest is plain default.
> 
> One thing I have to mention as it might is the cause. I used PCBSD to get FreeBSD onto the machine and upgraded then via sources to 10.
> 
> I extra did not do anything else as I wanted to show how newcomers who just follow 'official' documentation hit a wall during this procedurefree.

The below page is not official documentation. It is a wiki, its soley
devoted to developers & and those that wish to check the current status
and or debug problems.

> 
> I used this page to get information for installing X with Intel KMS support:
> 
> http://wiki.freebsd.org/Intel_GPU

Read the FAQ ?

This whole thread would be better suited to be on x11@ as the FAQ states

> 
> Here is the current status:
> 
> Ports tree downloaded during the day 12.06.12
> 
> Installation of Joe.
> 
> Joe is always the first port I install as I am used to its commands. I then download and compile other ports. As I am currently on a low-bandwidth Internet connection, I try to keep the machine busy during the night with large downloads.

Irrelevant

> 
> Parallel downloading and compilation of scribus and xorg-server
> 
> This error came from compiling scribus while xorg was still downloading:
> 
> g++ -c -O2 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -O2 -Wall -W -DQT_NO_CAST_FROM_ASCII -DQT_NO_CAST_TO_ASCII -DQFORMINTERNAL_NAMESPACE -DQT_KEYWORDS -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_XML_LIB -DQT_GUI_LIB -DQT_CORE_LIB -DQT_HAVE_MMX -DQT_HAVE_SSE -DQT_HAVE_MMXEXT -DQT_HAVE_SSE2 -DQT_HAVE_SSE3 -DQT_HAVE_SSSE3 -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -DQT_SHARED -I/usr/local/share/qt4/mkspecs/freebsd-g++ -I. -I../../../include/QtUiTools -I../../../include/QtCore -I../../../include/QtGui -I../../../include/QtXml -I../../../include -I../shared -I../../designer/src/uitools -I../../designer/src/lib/uilib -I.moc/release-shared -I.uic/release-shared -I/usr/local/include/qt4 -I/usr/local/include -o .obj/release-shared/moc_finddialog.o .moc/release-shared/moc_finddialog.cpp
> g++ -Wl,-rpath-link,/usr/ports/devel/qt4-linguist/work/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.2/lib -Wl,-O1 -pthread -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/lib/qt4 -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/lib/qt4 -o ../../../bin/linguist-qt4 .obj/release-shared/numerus.o  .obj/release-shared/translator.o  .obj/release-shared/translatormessage.o  .obj/release-shared/qm.o  .obj/release-shared/qph.o  .obj/release-shared/po.o  .obj/release-shared/ts.o  .obj/release-shared/xliff.o  .obj/release-shared/batchtranslationdialog.o  .obj/release-shared/errorsview.o  .obj/release-shared/finddialog.o  .obj/release-shared/formpreviewview.o  .obj/release-shared/globals.o  .obj/release-shared/main.o  .obj/release-shared/mainwindow.o  .obj/release-shared/messageeditor.o  .obj/release-shared/messageeditorwidgets.o  .obj/release-shared/messagehighlighter.o  .obj/release-shared/messagemodel.o  .obj/release-shared/phrasebookbox.o  .obj/release-shared/phrase.o  .obj/release-shared/phrasemodel.o  .obj/release-shared/phraseview.o  .obj/release-shared/printout.o  .obj/release-shared/recentfiles.o  .obj/release-shared/sourcecodeview.o  .obj/release-shared/statistics.o  .obj/release-shared/translatedialog.o  .obj/release-shared/translationsettingsdialog.o  .obj/release-shared/simtexth.o  .obj/release-shared/moc_batchtranslationdialog.o  .obj/release-shared/moc_errorsview.o  .obj/release-shared/moc_finddialog.o  .obj/release-shared/moc_formpreviewview.o  .obj/release-shared/moc_mainwindow.o  .obj/release-shared/moc_messageeditor.o  .obj/release-shared/moc_messageeditorwidgets.o  .obj/release-shared/moc_messagehighlighter.o  .obj/release-shared/moc_messagemodel.o  .obj/release-shared/moc_phrasebookbox.o  .obj/release-shared/moc_phrase.o  .obj/release-shared/moc_phrasemodel.o  .obj/release-shared/moc_phraseview.o  .obj/release-shared/moc_recentfiles.o  .obj/release-shared/moc_sourcecodeview.o  .obj/release-shared/moc_statistics.o  .obj/release-shared/moc_translatedialog.o  .obj/release-shared/moc_translationsettingsdialog.o  .obj/release-shared/qrc_linguist.o    -L/usr/ports/devel
> .obj/release-shared/mainwindow.o:(.rodata._ZTV19SortedContextsModel[_ZTV19SortedContextsModel]+0xc0): undefined reference to `QAbstractProxyModel::setItemData(QModelIndex const&, QMap<int, QVariant> const&)'
> .obj/release-shared/mainwindow.o:(.rodata._ZTV19SortedMessagesModel[_ZTV19SortedMessagesModel]+0xc0): undefined reference to `QAbstractProxyModel::setItemData(QModelIndex const&, QMap<int, QVariant> const&)'
> *** [../../../bin/linguist-qt4] Error code 1
> 1 error
> *** [first] Error code 2
> 1 error
> *** [sub-linguist-make_default] Error code 2
> 4 errors
> *** [do-build] Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports/devel/qt4-linguist.
> 
> We started to compile xorg-server after the download was finished.
> 
> There was this error message then:
> 
> Requested 'dri >= 7.8.0' but version of dri is 7.6.1
> 
> Obviously, an old version was kept in the ports.
> 
> Later KDE4 failed with
> 
> In file included from /usr/ports/accessibility/jovie/work/jovie-4.8.3/libkttsd/filterproc.cpp:153:
> /usr/ports/accessibility/jovie/work/jovie-4.8.3/libkttsd/filterproc.moc:47: error: no 'void KttsFilterProc::qt_static_metacall(QObject*, QMetaObject::Call, int, void**)' member function declared in class 'KttsFilterProc'
> /usr/ports/accessibility/jovie/work/jovie-4.8.3/libkttsd/filterproc.moc:61: error: 'const QMetaObjectExtraData KttsFilterProc::staticMetaObjectExtraData' is not a static member of 'class KttsFilterProc'
> /usr/ports/accessibility/jovie/work/jovie-4.8.3/libkttsd/filterproc.moc:63: error: argument of type 'void (KttsFilterProc::)(QObject*, QMetaObject::Call, int, void**)' does not match 'int (*)(QMetaObject::Call, int, void**)'
> /usr/ports/accessibility/jovie/work/jovie-4.8.3/libkttsd/filterproc.moc:67: error: 'staticMetaObjectExtraData' was not declared in this scope
> *** [libkttsd/CMakeFiles/kttsd.dir/filterproc.o] Error code 1
> [ 10%] Built target kcm_kttsd_automoc
> 1 error
> *** [libkttsd/CMakeFiles/kttsd.dir/all] Error code 2
> 1 error
> *** [all] Error code 2
> 1 error
> *** [do-build] Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports/accessibility/jovie.
> *** [run-depends] Error code 1
> 
> How can we help newcomers to avoid this kind of problems?
> 

By contributing to PRs and the correct mailing list with solutions,
outcomes, patches etc...

Part of it made it to this thread under a wrong subject line but its a
start...

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