Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 11:25:06 -0800 From: bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV (Bruce A. Mah) To: Laine Stump <laine@v-one.com> Cc: Brian Adkins <brian@lojic.com>, bmah@california.ca.sandia.gov, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing the vnc package Message-ID: <199903181925.LAA20521@stennis.ca.sandia.gov> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 18 Mar 1999 13:05:16 EST." <3.0.3.32.19990318130516.0092d420@mail.v-one.com>
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--==_Exmh_1104021380P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, Laine Stump wrote: > At 12:53 PM 3/18/99 -0500, Brian Adkins wrote: > > > >I'm running FreeBSD 2.2.7 and I got the vnc package from ftp.freebsd.org. > > (I'm curious why you didn't install 3.0.) > > >Do you know if the FreeBSD 2.2.7 /usr/ports/net/vnc will build with the r3 > >version if I tell it to ignore the MD5, or would it be easier to just build > >it the old fashioned way? I'd like to use the r3 version because it fixed > >a memory leak and possibly other bugs. > > In earlier versions, patches were necessary to get VNC to compile on > FreeBSD and NetBSD. Those problems were removed from the source awhile > back, and you can now build it by just following the simple instructions in > the README. Attempting to build using ports would probably fail even if it > ignored the MD5, because the patches most likely wouldn't match. (I'm just > guessing, as I don't recall the exact version when the need for patches was > removed, and have never installed it on FreeBSD, only NetBSD (I used to use > the FreeBSD patches, but don't anymore). Laine-- You're right, Brian ought to be able to build vnc (3.3.2r3) from the distribution. There are two patches in the current port...one is to fix up a Makefile problem which arises when building the port and the other is a patch I wrote to correct some fontpath problems that can arise if you don't have an absolutely complete set of X11 fonts. (I've heard calls to put the latter patch in the vnc distribution, in which case I'd remove it from the port.) Brian, I was going to suggest that you update your ports collection via cvsup...the problem is that if you do, the newer ports aren't guaranteed to work with 2.2.7. Bruce. --==_Exmh_1104021380P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNvFTEajOOi0j7CY9AQGLWQP7BWwuCkjnrQNl+14lebWXB01f5ZYFTGDp kpTp3p0R7CIxICha/9lotc+P4rPB3XTS5VrmTDGj29ai1ex/9IeFktXWsmb8UKR5 NqgGDBzMusyhs7d1saikyBCGdb54Qzr601zibFMz0tSt9j8MbJGCxBAGWdu0c/Xs Lmtv2Sz4Nds= =hrdP -----END PGP MESSAGE----- --==_Exmh_1104021380P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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