After a number of failed attempts to use FreeBSD, I'm giving 9.1 a try on an experimental machine. I managed to get through installation with bsdinstall without anything too horrible happening. It still has some problems that I noticed, but seems to be improved vs. 9.0.
One of the applications I require is Gnucash and the port does not build; you get an undefined reference to pcre_info from liboffice during one of the linking steps. The problem is not FreeBSD-specific, but a bug in the version of goffice in the ports database. This problem has affected Linux systems as well. I installed this patch:
and rebuilt goffice. I then went back and tried the build of Gnucash and it did build successfully and appears to work, though I have not yet tested it extensively.
Is this message sufficient for someone responsible for this port to fix it, or do I need to submit a formal bug report?
One of the applications I require is Gnucash and the port does not build; you get an undefined reference to pcre_info from liboffice during one of the linking steps. The problem is not FreeBSD-specific, but a bug in the version of goffice in the ports database. This problem has affected Linux systems as well. I installed this patch:
Code:
++++++ goffice-0_8-pcre-8_30.patch ++++++
Index: goffice-0.8.17/goffice/utils/regutf8.c
===================================================================
--- goffice-0.8.17.orig/goffice/utils/regutf8.c
+++ goffice-0.8.17/goffice/utils/regutf8.c
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ go_regcomp (GORegexp *gor, const char *p
default: return GO_REG_BADPAT;
}
} else {
- gor->re_nsub = pcre_info (r, NULL, NULL);
+ gor->re_nsub = pcre_fullinfo (r, NULL, 0, NULL);
gor->nosub = (cflags & GO_REG_NOSUB) != 0;
return 0;
}
--and rebuilt goffice. I then went back and tried the build of Gnucash and it did build successfully and appears to work, though I have not yet tested it extensively.
Is this message sufficient for someone responsible for this port to fix it, or do I need to submit a formal bug report?
