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Hello everyone. After a long time spent with linux (we use it for development at work), I decided to go back and have a look at FreeBSD. I used to compile software using the ports collection. On the other side, I use gentoo linux and, as a developer and building everything from source in...

I am running 11.0-PRERELEASE and am attempting to upgrade to the latest revision of stable/11. When building world I get linker issues involving ZFS libraries. Some experimentation I have done indicates that the builder is actually trying to link to my own system's ZFS libraries. As a test I...

I am having trouble compiling an untouched copy of the Kernel (Generic). I started out by adding a few print lines (uprintf) to the /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/usb_hid.c. The idea is to see the program work thoroughly when attaching a usb hid device, but that's beside the point. However, when I try...

I am curious about the status of these two ports. devel/gmake is the "full featured" gmake port, with a config option to enable NLS via devel/gettext. It is often pulled down by other ports during the build process, as it is listed as a USES= dependency in the Makefiles. There is also...

When I was upgrading from 10.1-RELEASE to 10.2-RELEASE through a normal binary update with freebsd-update -r 10.2-RELEASE, I got a few errors about no files existing: /usr/sbin/freebsd-update: cannot open files/.gz: No such file or directory I followed this solution, by updating the src, the...

Hello everyone, I'm trying to build latest CURRENT snapshot from svn, but make kernel fails to build with error messages like no member 'command' in ... -- like when some headers are missing or something. But am I wrong in my assumption that any given snapshot is supposed to build?