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How to build only gkrellmd from gkrellm2 #167

Closed fuzzyeric closed 1 year ago

fuzzyeric commented 1 year ago

Building gkrellm (on DEC740 https://shop.opnsense.com/product/dec740-opnsense-desktop-security-appliance/?PageSpeed=noscript , running OPNsense 22.7.10_2-amd64 on FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE-p5 )

sudo opnsense-code ports cd /usr/ports/sysutils/gkrellm2 sudo make install

...

spends much time clearly building packages for the client, useless for a headless device

...

===> Configuring for gtk2-2.24.33 gtk2-2.24.33: Needs cairo with X11 support enabled. *** Error code 1

Stop.
make[1]: stopped in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/gtk20
*** Error code 1

Stop.
make: stopped in /usr/ports/sysutils/gkrellm2

... which is fine, I guess, because the client is useless here. However, I can't seem to find a make target that will build and install gkrellmd, which is useful on this device.

(Now if I could just figure out how to clear out the 100s MB of X/gnome/gtk junk that was downloaded and built...)

Request documentation, perhaps in file "pkg-descr" and/or in the Makefile itself, for make targets for the client, the server, and both; the installation of each of those three; and the docs for each of those three (or whatever subset of the three is sensible).

Alternatively, request documentation (in either/both of the above files) for how to modify the Makefile to only build and install the server component (and its docs, if there are any).

fichtner commented 1 year ago

So we do disable X11 in /etc/make.conf (created using opnsense-code ports run). The question whether X11 can be disabled in the FreeBSD ports or that the software will actually run without it is not in the scope of our project. You'll have a bit more luck over at https://bugs.freebsd.org although as mentioned it could also be an upstream requirement.

We do not recommend enabling X11. It will definitely bloat the install and may cause package incompatibilities for your future updates through our firmware.

Cheers, Franco

Tomoyochan commented 1 year ago

The command would be make WITHOUT=CLIENT install

This only installs the gkrellmd daemon. It would be nice if it was something we could enable from inside of opnsense. However, I do understand that it is a niche request.