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From: Steve Davidson <stevedav@pacbell.net>
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Subject: Re: ports/28322: pan-0.9.7 fails to compile on FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE.
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I got pan-0.9.7 to build and would like to share the steps necessary.

First, an idea:
Ports should build on a fresh install of a release
in combination with a totally clean install/upgrade of the ports 
collection.  I am finding a large number of ports just don't build.

This should be a test scenario.
Again, the idea here is to define a standard test environment.

I believe that this will reduce the number of ports that don't build.
GUI-based packages are much more likely to fail than other ports.

Here is what I did:
1) Fresh install of 4.3-RELEASE
2) cd /usr/ports/news/pan; make  ...fails due to gnomecontrolcenter
3) pkg_delete all packages related to any packages that failed
4) remove all work directories related to ports that failed
5) cvsup the ports collection
6) rebuild pan   ...fails due to gnomecontrolcenter

The beginning of success:
7) download gnomecontrolcenter as a package
8) pkg_add gnomecontrolcenter    ...fails, but lists missing packages
9) Go to the ports of each missing package and 'make' it
10) about half of these failed; some succeeded
11) Re-build pan port -- IT WORKS!!

It's not pretty but it did work.

Please close this PR.

	From gnats@FreeBSD.org Thu Jun 21 10:56:19 2001
	Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 10:50:02 -0700 (PDT)
	From: gnats-admin@FreeBSD.org
	Subject: Re: ports/28322: pan-0.9.7 fails to compile on FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE.
	In-reply-to: "21 Jun 2001 10:42:59 -0700"
	 <"200106211742.f5LHgxt63452"@freefall.freebsd.org> (PDT)
	To: Steve Davidson <stevedav@pacbell.net>
	Reply-to: gnats-admin@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org

	Thank you very much for your problem report.
	It has the internal identification `ports/28322'.
	The individual assigned to look at your
	report is: freebsd-ports. 

	You can access the state of your problem report at any time
	via this link:

	http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=28322

	>Category:       ports
	>Responsible:    freebsd-ports
	>Synopsis:       pan-0.9.7 fails to compile on FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE.
	>Arrival-Date:   Thu Jun 21 10:50:01 PDT 2001


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