On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 3:26 PM Thomas Mueller <mueller6...@twc.com> wrote: > > from Kurt Jaeger and my previous post: > > > > I noticed, trying to configure ptxdist under FreeBSD (ptxdist.org), that > > > stat (gstat) was missing in sysutils/coreutils. > > > > Configure script execution ended with > > > > checking for GNU rm... /usr/local/bin/grm > > > checking for GNU rmdir... /usr/local/bin/grmdir > > > checking for GNU sort... /usr/local/bin/gsort > > > checking for GNU stat... configure: error: could not find GNU stat > > > Because FreeBSD has its own gstat command (doing something different), > > the port has gnustat for GNU stat. So the configure script > > needs to check for gnustat, maybe this solves your problem? > > Now I see where GNU stat is, and it's not FreeBSD's fault that ptxdist > configure script can't find things. I made a symbolic link in nonroot > ~/fb64/bin: > > ln -s /usr/local/bin/gnustat gstat
I'm not clear whether you're trying to construct a port, or just getting the software to build. If you're building a port, you can achieve that with: BINARY_ALIAS= gstat=gnustat # Adam -- Adam Weinberger ad...@adamw.org https://www.adamw.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"