gnomeapplets build failure

[Ben Munat]

Ah. Thanks. That did it. Maybe the build script should just check for the existence of the 
kernel source and error out immediately with an informative message rather than print a 
message that just flies by amidst thousands of lines of output?

Ben


Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 17:08 -0800, Ben Munat wrote:
> 
>>Hello. I've been using gentoo for awhile, but when a disk failure meant a reinstall of my 
>>OS, I figured I'd give FreeBSD a shot. I got my system up and running fairly quickly by 
>>using all binary packages off the CD. Liked the quickness of that, but I've been 
>>struggling to get everything upgraded to the latest versions from the ports tree ever 
>>since. Maybe I've been doing stuff wrong, but I've had about a dozen build failures, 
>>mostly due to portupgrade's reluctance to upgrade some packages. I've slowly whittled away 
>>at these by deinstalling/reinstalling and I'm down to two packages... gnomeapplets and 
>>gnome2-lite. But now I get a real build error and I'm stuck... something to do with acpi. 
>>I'll paste the output below. Would appreciate any help.
> 
> 
> Read the message that's printed when you start to build gnomeapplets2.
> You need the FreeBSD kernel source installed in /usr/src (or you need to
> set the FREEBSD_SYS variable to point to the location where the kernel
> source is installed).
> 
> Hopefully, this need will go away in the future when the ACPI headers
> are copied to /usr/include.
> 
> Joe
>