From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 19 15:11:29 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B83021B1 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2014 15:11:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qc0-x236.google.com (mail-qc0-x236.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c01::236]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7B60B359 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2014 15:11:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qc0-f182.google.com with SMTP id e16so9717813qcx.41 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2014 08:11:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=references:from:mime-version:in-reply-to:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=HtLOaX/gIKFykaZmiMIgbdlzE/P5cglN6iDW4ZRKq1k=; b=SF3eghjdb4bGjGYym0U4c8cV9/7kVGrn6UaMfjkZuR9/LnS66XRAEHVM1SG7/AZvUz oI/84J4kr6hbgf03h2iyvLVaYYMSqd63nddTk394aOAECJN0BSBfH+lm6+WWRuaeCoFO EY7jEKX1+XnMo5lsTdbXCKAcDKO+ARTy+MCQFaEVtsjgz4iX+RQTHfMoliBBCZwIDZtL AGReypDrXY0ue16k5eiwW6PTSS4HEYc4o+WxgimXhzW1yd4xICdehT7SxvPmFabPQF0F lBvBbWY0UPqOneyO48q0frqBf988SzBw4cfpBMEZYKRCtyIkN18hau/qGiK0P7N8/k+T LDrA== X-Received: by 10.229.89.65 with SMTP id d1mr43894536qcm.14.1395241888762; Wed, 19 Mar 2014 08:11:28 -0700 (PDT) References: <85FE6DC9-3D0D-4AAE-BEF7-5F0649DE1E14@gmail.com> <20140319094527.254a8fd2.freebsd@edvax.de> From: Matthew Pherigo Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) In-Reply-To: <20140319094527.254a8fd2.freebsd@edvax.de> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 10:11:28 -0500 Message-ID: <-2000055167906712389@unknownmsgid> Subject: Re: lang/nimrod doesn't compile anything [SOLVED] To: Polytropon Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 15:11:29 -0000 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 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, ...