On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:

> On Sun, 5 Sep 2004 19:09:00 +0000 (UTC)
> Krister Walfridsson <kristerw@netbsd.org> wrote:
>
> > misc/gnome-utils           1       rh@NetBSD.org
>
> Before I install too many gnome 1 garbage...  I see that this package fails because:
>
> checking for /var/adm/messages... not found
> checking for /var/log/messages... not found
> configure: error: Cannot find messages log file, you should specify one in --with-messages=.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop.
> make: stopped in /usr/pkgsrc/misc/gnome-utils
> *** Error code 1
>
> Is it there something special in your setup that prevents access to that file?

I'm building in a sandbox set up by (an old) pkgsrc/mk/bulk/mksandbox,
and that script does not seem to populate /var/log.  I'll try to create
a sandbox/var/log/messages and see if that solves the problem.

   /Krister