Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 10:11:28 -0500 From: Matthew Pherigo <hybrid120@gmail.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: lang/nimrod doesn't compile anything [SOLVED] Message-ID: <-2000055167906712389@unknownmsgid> In-Reply-To: <20140319094527.254a8fd2.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <85FE6DC9-3D0D-4AAE-BEF7-5F0649DE1E14@gmail.com> <BF6037B3-5223-45D1-93B3-DF80B914CEBE@gmail.com> <20140319094527.254a8fd2.freebsd@edvax.de>
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Definitely! I'm writing the maintainer today, along with another bug I've encountered. (Though, the problem may actually be in the app itself and not in the port.) --Matt > On Mar 19, 2014, at 3:45 AM, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > >> On Tue, 18 Mar 2014 22:32:48 -0500, Matthew Pherigo wrote: >> Hey all, >> >> After some googling that I didn't think to do before, >> I was able to fix it! For the future problem-sufferers, >> here's what's going on. Apparently, does not look for >> its configuration file in anything other than /etc/nimrod.cfg. >> A simple ln -s fixed it. > > That surely is an intermediate solution, but far from > perfect or even "accepted". The /etc directory is reserved > for system files (of the OS), and nimrod is an additional > package, so according to "man hier", it should have its > configuration files in /usr/local/etc. Either should an > environmental variable or a command line option be present, > but it will probably be a better idea to write to the > maintainer and ask him to fix this bug. > > The symlink you've created is not recorded by any means > of packaging tools, so if you update or remove things, > it will be left, possibly causing trouble later on which > nobody can imagine at the moment. > > What you're seeing seems to be a typical "Linuxism". :-) > > > -- > Polytropon > Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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