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Date:      Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:54:00 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org>
To:        Chuck Robey <chuckr@telenix.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD GNOME Mailing List <FreeBSD-gnome@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: broken builds
Message-ID:  <486A6F38.6030407@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <486A6C2B.9040708@telenix.org>
References:  <486A6381.6080208@telenix.org> <486A6C2B.9040708@telenix.org>

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Chuck Robey wrote:
> Chuck Robey wrote:
>> Hello, you and I haven't spoken for a great long time now.  I'm having a problem
>> with the building of ORBit2, but I understand from looking over the web, that
>> the problem is rather more widespread, hitting everything which wants to run
>> /usr/local/bin/orbit-idl-2.
> 
>> The problem is that ldd reports that orbit-idl-2 (built from devel/ORBit2) needs
>>  to be rebuilt because it relies upon an old lib from devel/icu2, but it fails
>> to rebuild with an error, not able to figure out a symbol named
>> G_GNUC_PRETTY_FUNCTION, which is obviously a #define.  Looking over the error,
>> it's because of a missing symbols in glib20, and there are a flock of error
>> reports on the web about this.  The only answer I have seen, so far, is that it
>> broke in glib version 21.6, so one should move glib back to 2.15.1  Too bad,
>> because the glib20 port seemed to  have jumped from 2.14 to 2.16.1.
> 
>> OK, so, ultimately, I can't build gnome2 because of this.  I've no idea just how
>> many other ports might be affected.  I was sort of wondering if a different
>> solution existed, or if maybe one might consider rolling the glib20 port back to
>> 2.15.1 until this gets fixed by the glib folks?
> 
> One more comment: I just locally slid my glib back to 2.15.3, and it seems to
> have fixed everything.  Unless you have a fix for the G_GNUC_PRETTY_FUNCTION
> problem, that's a short term solution which works.

Glib 2.15.x are development (i.e. unstable versions).  IT looks like 
you've built glib20 with COLLATION_FIX OPTION which is non-default.  Try 
rebuilding glib20 without this.  GNOME builds just fine in a clean 
environment.

Joe

-- 
Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	gnome@FreeBSD.org
FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome



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