Port details

chinese/gcin 2.9.4

Traditional Chinese input utility in X

unaddressed

VuXML only

fixed

open problem reports

Port info

Maintainer: vanilla@FreeBSD.org
Packages: latest: 2.9.4
Upstream: up to date
Last update: 2026-10-15 to 2.9.4 · 9377490ef0
Quarterly: 2026Q4: 2.9.4
WWW: https://hyperrate.com/dir.php?eid=67
Links: cgit · VuXML

Install

Package

# pkg install zh-gcin

installs 2.9.4 from latest; from quarterly (2026Q4) 2.9.4

Port

# cd /usr/ports/chinese/gcin && make install clean

# make -C /usr/ports/chinese/gcin config  # change options first

Size

4.9 MiB download · 18 MiB installed

Depends on

accessibility/at-spi2-core 2.60.4, devel/gettext-runtime 1.0_1, devel/glib20 2.88.3,2, ftp/curl 8.23.0, graphics/cairo 1.18.2,3, graphics/gdk-pixbuf2 2.44.1, print/harfbuzz 14.6.0, x11-toolkits/gtk30 3.24.52, x11-toolkits/pango 1.57.1, x11/libX11 1.8.14,1, x11/libXext 1.3.7,1, x11/libXtst 1.2.6

License

LGPL21

Options

0 of 1 on in the package

Show the 1 options that are off

ANTHY

pkg-message

Shown after installing

Remember to set these environment varibles (such as your ~/.xinitrc):

  export XMODIFIERS='@im=gcin'
  export GTK_IM_MODULE=gcin

  # Finally, to start the GCIN input method daemon, use command:
  exec gcin &

Packages by version and architecture

latest

FreeBSD version	amd64	aarch64	i386
FreeBSD 16	2.9.4	✗	–
FreeBSD 15	2.9.4	2.9.4	–
FreeBSD 14	2.9.4	✗	2.9.4

quarterly (2026Q4)

FreeBSD version	amd64	aarch64	i386
FreeBSD 15	2.9.4	✗	–
FreeBSD 14	2.9.4	✗	2.9.4

version as in the ports tree (latest) or the most common one (quarterly) · different version · ✗ not built · – no packages for this platform. Package sets that have not been rebuilt for 60 days are left out.

Unaddressed and VuXML only (0)

No unaddressed CVE and nothing reported by pkg audit for the packaged version 2.9.4.

Fixed (0)

No VuXML entries for this package.

Problem reports (0) · open in Bugzilla, most recently changed first

None.

Commits (178)

2012-03-15 16:32Vanilla I. Shu (vanilla) · 2.7.5

Upgrade to 2.7.5.

Feature safe:	yes

6edc6a3c27

2012-02-25 16:07Vanilla I. Shu (vanilla) · 2.7.4

Upgrade to 2.7.4.

f8a4b8671c

2012-02-11 15:26Vanilla I. Shu (vanilla) · 2.7.3

1: Upgrade to 2.7.3 2: take maintainer bit.

3892ab366f

2012-02-09 01:34Vanilla I. Shu (vanilla) · 2.7.2

Fix pkg-plist.

Obtained from:	pav@ via pointyhat

1c75d59901

2012-02-04 12:41Vanilla I. Shu (vanilla) · 2.7.2

Add missing file to pkg-plist.

6e92ed46c4

2012-02-04 12:38Vanilla I. Shu (vanilla) · 2.7.2

1: Upgrade to 2.7.2. 2: better way to handle intcode-module.so.

78c0a332a7

2012-02-04 10:45Chin-San Huang (chinsan) · 2.7.1_1

- Fix pkg-plist

5be795392f

2012-01-31 13:52Vanilla I. Shu (vanilla) · 2.7.1

Upgrade to 2.7.1.

b063f07f7c

2012-01-31 09:30Kevin Lo (kevlo) · 2.7.0_1

Fix typo

35eeedf42a

2012-01-31 09:26Kevin Lo (kevlo) · 2.7.0

- Install missing man pages - Bump PORTREVISION

e6ce319bca

2012-01-30 18:35Chin-San Huang (chinsan) · 2.7.0

- Remove unused patch

Noticed by:	lwhsu@

cdc7663c8b

2012-01-30 16:52Chin-San Huang (chinsan) · 2.7.0

- Update to 2.7.0 - Add CHEWING knob to enable Chewing IM module - Limit to compile on FreeBSD 7.0+ - Fix japanese/anthy dependency - Many thanks to the contributer: vanilla@ - Drop maintainership

Changelog:	http://www.csie.nctu.edu.tw/~cp76/gcin/download/Changelog.html

0fa6062a4a

2011-11-06 17:36Martin Wilke (miwi) · 1.6.0

- Get rid FreeBSD 6.X support

e8f615fbc7

2011-03-23 15:36Chin-San Huang (chinsan) · 1.6.0

- Update to 1.6.0 - Take maintainership

Changelog:	http://www.csie.nctu.edu.tw/~cp76/gcin/download/Changelog.html

4007b0f2b0

2011-03-05 08:05Chin-San Huang (chinsan) · 1.5.9

- Update to 1.5.9 - Fix mirror issue, also mv LOCAL/chinsan to LOCAL/chinsan/gcin for better category.

4925e004bb

2011-02-15 23:18Chin-San Huang (chinsan) · 1.5.8

- update to 1.5.8 - remove noseeing - fix gcin-setup - fix qt4 detecting problem (path) - remove unused patch - use 'xdg-open(1)' to opens a file or URL in the user's preferred application

30069130ae

2011-02-09 11:53Chin-San Huang (chinsan) · 1.5.6

- Upgrade to 1.5.6  - Add LICENSE

0bf2dd04e9

2010-03-31 16:23Pav Lucistnik (pav) · 1.4.5_3

- Correct Latest link (I'm pretty sure no one is going to do 'pkg_add -r yes`)

0d077dc619

2010-03-28 08:47Dirk Meyer (dinoex) · 1.4.5_3

- update to 1.4.1 Reviewed by:	exp8 run on pointyhat Supported by:	miwi

de78af3ac5

2010-02-05 12:46Dirk Meyer (dinoex) · 1.4.5_2

- update to jpeg-8

ca9c60461c

2009-12-19 22:40Max Brazhnikov (makc) · 1.4.5_1

Fix QT4 option usage (in preparation for Qt-4.6.0 update) Replace strip with ${STRIP_CMD} while here

6e124b0aa2

2009-08-28 19:37Mark Linimon (linimon) · 1.4.5_1

Reset chinsan@FreeBSD.org due to numerous maintainer-timeouts and no response to email.

Hat:		portmgr

9fb1ef4c3a

2009-07-31 15:57Dirk Meyer (dinoex) · 1.4.5_1

- bump all port that indirectly depends on libjpeg and have not yet been bumped or updated Requested by:	edwin

eca78ec61b

2009-05-17 11:48Chin-San Huang (chinsan) · 1.4.5

- Update to 1.4.5

d42aa35c7a

2009-04-08 02:42Ion-Mihai Tetcu (itetcu) · 1.4.4_1

Fix plist with -DNOPORT*.

Prompted by:	QAT QA run
Approved by:	maintainer timeout on QATMail

d8e1131ff2

2009-03-23 21:00Chin-San Huang (chinsan) · 1.4.4_1

- Reduce depenency on japanese/anthy - Bump PORTREVISION

Suggested by:	kevlo@
Source from:	caleb

3bbd01a94c

2009-03-02 22:57Pav Lucistnik (pav) · 1.4.4

- Mark BROKEN on FreeBSD 6.x

Reported by:	pointyhat

de7398d324

2009-02-01 02:10Chin-San Huang (chinsan) · 1.4.4

- Update to 1.4.4

1e84319515

2008-10-21 18:02Chin-San Huang (chinsan) · 1.4.2_1

- Update noseeing to version 12th. - Bump PORTREVISION

215bee2477

2008-08-11 05:40Chin-San Huang (chinsan) · 1.4.2

- Add conflicts with chinese/gcin-devel

4694cc4a34

2008-06-21 12:20Chin-San Huang (chinsan) · 1.4.2

- Update to 1.4.2.

a7bc25b713

2008-06-20 16:19Chin-San Huang (chinsan) · 1.4.1

- Update to 1.4.1.

85fa7a1c00

2008-06-06 16:17Edwin Groothuis (edwin) · 1.4.0_2

Bump portrevision due to upgrade of devel/gettext.

The affected ports are the ones with gettext as a run-dependency
according to ports/INDEX-7 (5007 of them) and the ones with USE_GETTEXT
in Makefile (29 of them).

PR:             ports/124340
Submitted by:   edwin@
Approved by:    portmgr (pav)

090059a210

2008-05-30 01:19Chin-San Huang (chinsan) · 1.4.0_1

- Fix the pkg-plist if defined(NOPORTDOCS).

Noticed by:		itetcu

9db928c191

2008-05-18 07:40Chin-San Huang (chinsan) · 1.4.0

- Update to 1.4.0.

9d7ccf0ec4

2008-05-05 20:04Chin-San Huang (chinsan) · 1.3.9_3

- Update noseeing to ver. 11.

d6c434fc03

2008-04-21 18:24Chin-San Huang (chinsan) · 1.3.9_2

- Update noseeing to 10.

d935d3c32d

2008-04-19 19:56Martin Wilke (miwi) · 1.3.9_1

- Remove unneeded dependency from gtk12/gtk20 [1] - Remove USE_XLIB/USE_X_PREFIX/USE_XPM in favor of USE_XORG - Remove X11BASE support in favor of LOCALBASE or PREFIX - Use USE_LDCONFIG instead of INSTALLS_SHLIB - Remove unneeded USE_GCC 3.4+

Thanks to all Helpers:
	Dmitry Marakasov, Chess Griffin, beech@, dinoex, rafan, gahr,
	ehaupt, nox, itetcu, flz, pav

PR:		116263
Tested on:	pointyhat
Approved by:	portmgr (pav)

3e4ed01146

2008-04-02 06:46Chin-San Huang (chinsan) · 1.3.9

- Update noseeing to 9. - Add more mirrors.

ef51096b70

2008-02-08 07:38Chin-San Huang (chinsan) · 1.3.9

- Update to 1.3.9 - Changelog: http://cle.linux.org.tw/gcin/download/Changelog

c881f1d496

2008-01-21 16:51Chin-San Huang (chinsan) · 1.3.8

- Update to 1.3.8 - Changelog: http://cle.linux.org.tw/gcin/download/Changelog

61fea0c5c1

2007-12-23 16:35Chin-San Huang (chinsan) · 1.3.7.1

- Add the missed checksum of noseeing tar ball.

c3af20579d

2007-12-23 16:25Chin-San Huang (chinsan) · 1.3.7.1

- Update to 1.3.7.1

0daee87a3d

2007-10-25 19:26Chin-San Huang (chinsan) · 1.3.5

- Update to 1.3.5

c32854226f

2007-05-19 22:36Florent Thoumie (flz) · 1.3.4_1

- Welcome X.org 7.2 \o/. - Set X11BASE to ${LOCALBASE} for recent ${OSVERSION}. - Bump PORTREVISION for ports intalling files in ${X11BASE}.

d4f0d0048a

2007-04-13 03:54Rong-En Fan (rafan) · 1.3.4

- Update to 1.3.4

PR:		ports/111504
Submitted by:	chinsan (maintainer)

e3a92369fd

2007-02-06 10:06Rong-En Fan (rafan) · 1.3.3_1

- Fix problem with GTK_IM_MODULE set to gcin [1] - Make pkg-message more clear [2]

PR:		ports/108821 [1], ports/108791 [2]
Submitted by:	eliu (author) via chinsan [1], chinsan (maintainer) [2]

a041fc33fb

2007-02-04 06:09Rong-En Fan (rafan) · 1.3.3

- Update BOSHIAMY to version 8

PR:		ports/108703
Submitted by:	chinsan (maintainer)

df2d781e02

2007-02-01 05:06Rong-En Fan (rafan) · 1.3.3

- Update to 1.3.3

PR:		ports/108604
Submitted by:	chinsan (maintainer)

b62d6b2fdb

2007-01-07 08:13Rong-En Fan (rafan) · 1.3.2

- Update boshiamy to 7

PR:		ports/107647
Submitted by:	chinsan (maintainer)

178302e520

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