[ros-users] running ROS on FreeBSD

[Rene Ladan]

2010/3/22 Josh Faust <jfaust at willowgarage.com>:
>
>> Does this happen because the log4cxx port on  FreeBSD is behind (0.9.7
>> instead of 0.10.0) ?
>
> Yes.  0.9.7 is an old release from 2004.  log4cxx was significantly changed
> for 0.10.0 which was released in 2008.  I believe rosdep on ubuntu hardy/osx
> build it from a tarball.
>
Ok, then I'll send in an update for log4cxx on FreeBSD first. Because
the port is maintained by someone else, that maintainer first has to
approve the patch. This means it make take up to 2 weeks (maintainer
timeout) to get the new version in the FreeBSD ports tree.

Rene