Re: PrjectCenter (and Gorm) ask for old gnustep-base library in FreeBSD 11.1

[Edwin Ancaer]

Well, I think it is important to have a standard setup when asking for help on the maillist.

J will do   a reinstall this weekend, and then use pkg install for all my installations.

For this cenon package, I don't mind giving it a try. Is it ok if I install 10.4?

And then I do pkg install xenon?

I'm currently on 11.1, and indeed, the package is installed, but the program is not working (on my non-standard installation):
[edwin@ottopedi ~]$ openapp Cenon
2017-11-09 02:59:10.141 Cenon[4708:100117] styleoffsets ... guessing offsets
2017-11-09 02:59:10.145 Cenon[4708:100117] styleoffsets ... guessing offsets
2017-11-09 02:59:10.260 Cenon[4708:100117] Unsupported... This is an XCode 5 XIB file.
2017-11-09 02:59:10.277 Cenon[4708:100117] Could not instantiate Xib unarchiver/Unable to parse Xib.
2017-11-09 02:59:10.281 Cenon[4708:100117] Failed to load Xib
2017-11-09 02:59:10.288 Cenon[4708:100117] Unsupported... This is an XCode 5 XIB file.
2017-11-09 02:59:10.304 Cenon[4708:100117] Could not instantiate Xib unarchiver/Unable to parse Xib.
2017-11-09 02:59:10.304 Cenon[4708:100117] Failed to load Xib
2017-11-09 02:59:10.307 Cenon[4708:100117] Cannot load the main model file 'Main'
2017-11-09 02:59:10.330 Cenon[4708:100117] Problem posting notification: <NSException: 0x2c6527d0> NAME:NSInvalidArgumentException REASON:-[NSFileManager createSymbolicLinkAtPath:withDestinationPath:error:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x2a1a6f10 INFO:(null)

2017-11-08 11:08 GMT+01:00 David Chisnall <David.Chisnall@cl.cam.ac.uk>:

On 8 Nov 2017, at 03:32, Edwin Ancaer <eancaer@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Does this make it useless to report 'bugs' I find on my system, until I do a  complete reinstall, as now there is a large possibility the causes are some local problems with my installation.

Generally, yes.  Part of the reason that it’s not recommended to build ports without using poudriere is that their configure scripts can end up polluted with installed things that are not explicit dependencies and then you can end up with a mess.  If you use poudriere, it will create a clean jail, install the dependencies, and then build, so you should end up with a more reproduceable build.  portmaster and portupgrade have a nasty habit of missing updates and leaving your system in a not-so-coherent state.  They also need you to install the dependencies before you build the ports that depend on them, which leaves you with a long window during a big update between the start and finish when you have mismatched versions.  With Poudriere, you kick off the build and then end up with a new package set at the end, which you can then install.

David

P.S. If you’re using 10.x and are able to see why cenon isn’t building on 10, that would be very helpful!