thefish-0.6.6_5 is marked as broken: does not build [FreeBSD9.0]

[Kevin Oberman]

On Oct 22, 2011 6:34 AM, "Alexander Kapshuk" <alexander.kapshuk at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> howdy,
>
> when attempting to build x11/gnome2-power-tools from ports on my
FreeBSD9.0 desktop, the package failed to build spitting out the error
message below:
>
> gnome2-power-tools-2.32.1_2 depends on executable: thefish - not found
> ===>    Verifying install for thefish in /usr/ports/sysutils/thefish
> ===>  thefish-0.6.6_5 is marked as broken: does not build.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/sysutils/thefish.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/x11/gnome2-power-tools
>
> :; uname -a
> FreeBSD localhost 9.0-BETA3 FreeBSD 9.0-BETA3 #0: Sat Sep 24 20:46:57 UTC
2011     root at obrian.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
>
> is there a fix for this?

Until either thefish is fixed or it is removed, edit
ports/x11/gnome2-powertools/Makefile. Delete the line listing fish and the
trailing '\' from th prior line.

R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Retired
kob6558 at gmail.com