Building ports without needing to installing dependencies into /usr/local

2019-08-21 Thread Theron Tarigo
Hello all, I'd like to share with you the following summary of my progress in adapting the FreeBSD ports framework to gain the capability to build packages (including dependencies) in isolation of the local system configuration in /usr/local, whereas the existing behavior is to require depend

D22521: new ports: Nvidia headless/hybrid graphics ("Optimus" support) needs commit / review

2020-04-07 Thread Theron Tarigo
Hello all, The work by myself and other users of Nvidia-gfx laptops to patch the driver to work for us has been stuck in review for a few months now.  The reason for review of what would normally be a routine new-ports bug submission is that changes to x11/nvidia-driver/Makefile are needed to

Re: remove the python limition of qt5-webkit (if possible)

2018-03-13 Thread Theron Tarigo
On 03/13/18 19:03, Walter Schwarzenfeld wrote: If try to install qt5-webkit from a dependend port I got: qt5-webkit-5.212.0.a2_5 needs Python 2.7 at most, but 3.6 was specified if possible, could someone remove the limitation of python:2.7,build change to python:build _

Re: pcm1:virtual:dsp1.vp0: play interrupt timeout, channel dead

2018-03-18 Thread Theron Tarigo
On 03/18/18 18:35, AN wrote: Is there a way to restart the audio subsystem without rebooting the machine? Building kernel with sound and snd_* as loadable modules should enable this to be accomplished with kldunload/kldload.  In my experience though all sound device files must be closed before

Re: .if and Makefile issues

2018-03-25 Thread Theron Tarigo
On 03/26/18 00:50, Gary Aitken wrote: 1. Why does the .if, .else, and .endif have to have no leading whitespace? The tells Make that the line contains a command to run in the shell when executing a rule.  ".if", etc. are statements understood only to Make itself. 2. Why does it require the o