On 30 April 2018 at 22:33, Thomas Mueller <[email protected]> wrote: [...] > I see hardly any mention of synth on the freebsd-ports list. Have synth > users become disenchanted?
There are a growing number of synth users. They just don't appear on the list 'cause the software just works. > One downside is that synth fails to install build dependencies, so I have to > pkg install all of these separately, very annoying. Why should build dependencies be installed? Their only purpose is for building the port. > I was bitten just yesterday trying to build cross-compiling tools for Haiku > when make info was missing because texinfo was built but not installed. > > But I was able to recover with pkg install after checking my repository. > > With portmaster, I need to specify ports by category/portname rather than > just portname, for example > portmaster www/seamonkey > > On my other computer, with MSI Z77 MPOWER motherboard, synth just fumbles and > crashes. I would suspect you have hardware issues instead. synth builds tend to strain the machine - it's a good test of machine hardiness. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
