new port: libtool: link: cannot find the library `'
Mathieu Prevot
freebsd-ports at club-internet.fr
Sun Jan 28 11:59:46 UTC 2007
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 10:35:24PM +0100, Markus Brueffer wrote:
> On Saturday 27 January 2007 19:15, Mathieu Prevot wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 05:23:48PM +0100, Markus Brueffer wrote:
> > > Hi Mathieu,
> > >
> > > The problem is that the buildsystem that kmess ships is hosed. Try the
> > > following in the port's directory (regenerating the buildsystem):
> > >
> > > # make patch
> > > # cd work/kmess-1.5pre1
> > > # gmake -f admin/Makefile.common
> > > # cd ../..
> > > # make
> > >
> > > Now the build should succeed. I don't have much time at the moment, but
> > > will come back to you tonight with details on how to fix this properly.
> >
> > It made it, indeed. Thanks for this.
> > I will wait for details.
>
> Here is a version of the port that should build and install flawlessly (only
> compile tested, no runtime tests as I don't use MSN):
>
> http://people.freebsd.org/~markus/stuff/kmess.tar.bz2
>
> What I did was the following: As soon as you notice funny automake messages
> after the configure stage, you know something is wrong with the buildsystem.
> In most cases, by my own experience, these are only noop changes the author
> did after generating the buildsystem that changed one or more timestamps.
> Using gmake -d in the builddirectory you can see which files are affected and
> correct the timestamps manually (look at the post-patch target). That's what
> I did in this case.
>
> In some rare cases, the author really forgot to regenerate the buildsystem
> before releasing the distfile. If this is the case, you have to regenerate it
> by yourself (as shown in the first mail). After that you can choose between
> creating a mega patch for the port, hosted at an external site, or releasing
> a completly new tarball. The latter one is mostly more appropriate, as the
> size of the patch often exceeds the size of a new tarball.
>
> Please let me know if kmess works as expected. If so, I'd like to commit it
> (judging from the information from the website, this version should be quite
> stable).
>
> Btw: This port is currently unmaintained. Would you like to be the new
> maintainer of it? (hint, hint) :)
The sofware works fine. Yes, I would like to maintain it, but I'm not sure
I see /everything/ this suppose.
Regards,
Mathieu
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