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Date:      Mon, 16 Feb 2004 22:28:30 -0500
From:      Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Vladimir Belyashki <n3c@necrotaur.pichove.org>
Cc:        gnome@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Gnome2 build question
Message-ID:  <20040217032830.GD64174@toxic.magnesium.net>
In-Reply-To: <20040217030730.GA13523@alpha.necrotaur.pichove.org>
References:  <20040217030730.GA13523@alpha.necrotaur.pichove.org>

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>> (02.16.2004 @ 2207 PST): Vladimir Belyashki said, in 1.4K: <<
> Greetings and thanks for the great job you're doing!
> 
> I have a simple question regarding a Gnome2 build.
> Is it possible at all to build Gnome2 on a fresh
> install of FreeBSD CURRENT? After deprecating the 
> accessibility category in the ports tree many 
> components ot the Gnome2 desktop environment fail 
> to build complaining about missing atk, gail and 
> at-spi. The only workaround I've found so far is 
> using parts of the ports collection coming with FreeBSD 
> 5.2-RELEASE, where the mentioned above ports are 
> still present. But then they show as orphaned packets 
> in the installed software list. I've searched at 
> http://www.freshports.org/ for any solution or more 
> info but the only thing I found there was deletion 
> confirmations. Can you please suggest any way out 
> of this situation? This is not the first time I mail 
> a maintainer about port issues and all of you have 
> always been very helpful and responsive. Couple of 
> times those issues were well known so I was wondering 
> is there a FreeBSD ports mailinglist I should subscribe 
> to and save us false alerts in the future? Many thanks 
> again and keep up the superb work :).
>> end of "Gnome2 build question" from Vladimir Belyashki <<

Hi Vladimir!

Please take a look at http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html and
see if that doesn't help steer you in the right direction.

# Adam


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