Packages required on FreeBSD:

• python25
• openldap-client
• git (and deps: renderproto kbproto expat ca_root_nss tcl-modules tcl perl p5-Net-SMTP-SSL p5-Error curl pkg-config xproto libXau libXdmcp freetype2 fontconfig libpthread-stubs libxcb libX11 libXrender libXft tk cvsps)
• gettext
• autoconf262 (and deps: m4)
• automake14 automake17 automake18 automake19 automake110
• subversion (and deps: sqlite3 gdbm db42 neon28 apr-gdbm-db42)
• p5-XML-Parser

• p5-XML-Simple (and deps: p5-XML-NamespaceSupport p5-XML-SAX p5-XML-SAX-Expat)

• docbook-utils (and deps: xextproto printproto libwww xmlcatmgr jade dsssl-docbook-modular tex-texmflocal gsfonts cmpsfont amspsfnt teTeX-texmf p5-SGMLSpm texi2html png jpeg libICE libSM gd libXext libXp libXt libXpm libXmu libXaw t1lib ghostscript8 teTeX-base jadetex lynx )
• docbook-310 docbook-xml-430 docboox-xml-440 docbook-xsl
• jasper
• popt
• libXtst
• bison flex
• icu
• libXrandr (and deps: randrproto)

docbook2html doesn't get installed with the short name, so run:

ln -s /usr/local/bin/docbook2html .local/bin/db2html

The jhbuild bootstrap libtool is required, as libtool 1.5.26 (shipped in ports) is too old. Build the new one with:

jhbuild --moduleset bootstrap build libtool

For whatever reason libraries occasionally don't get symlinks created.

jhbuild shell
cd $PREFIX/lib
ln -s libgcrypt.so.16.2 libgcrypt.so
ln -s libgpg-error.so.4.0 libgpg-error.so

jhbuildrc

os.environ['MAKE'] = 'gmake'
os.environ['XML_CATALOG_FILES'] = '/usr/local/share/xml/catalog'
autogenargs = 'CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include" LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib"'
module_autogenargs['libxml2'] = autogenargs + ' --with-python=/usr/local'
#gtk-doc doesn't believe in environment variables or letting programs do their own thing
module_autogenargs['gtk-doc'] = autogenargs + ' --with-xml-catalog=/usr/local/share/xml/catalog'

Current Issues

• shared-mime-info calls make instead of ${MAKE}, fixed in https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20655 and waiting for new release.

• http://avahi.org/ticket/156

• Avahi doesn't respect ACLOCAL_FLAGS as set by the environment - they need to be added directly to autogen.sh, [http://blogs.gnome.org/jamesh/2004/11/01/1-november-2004/ and maybe configure.in]. autogen.sh also calls make instead of $MAKE (gmake).

• libdaemon doesn't build because of a reference to _NSIG (instead of NSIG) in dfork.c - this is fixed in HEAD but not 0.13.

• http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=584307

• http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=584581 nyer nyer nyer, I'm better at shell scripting than you

• http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/net/avahi-app/Makefile?annotate=1.18

• http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=584597

• libproxy-0.2.3 doesn't build due to poor defines/flags. libproxy from SVN builds OK, but has the same ACLOCAL_FLAGS problem as avahi, and needs --with-python passed on the command line (otherwise it gets built but none of the paths get set for installation)

Fixed Bugs

• http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=584176