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Date:      Thu, 17 Aug 2017 12:00:54 -0400
From:      <scratch65535@att.net>
To:        freebsd-ports <ports@freebsd.org>
Cc:        herbert@mailbox.org
Subject:   Re: gtkmm30 fails to build under 10.3
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[Default] On Thu, 17 Aug 2017 15:19:11 +0200 (CEST), "Herbert J.
Skuhra" <herbert@mailbox.org> wrote:


>Just try what jbeich@ told you. Or use pkg!

The problem is twofold, really:  it's the makefile that should
satisfy the dependencies, but it doesn't; and evidently nobody
ever bothered to test the bits to see whether they would build
even when someone fills in the many gaps by hand.

Although giomm is installed by glibmm, and I've installed the
latest-and-greatest glibmm, that didn't help:  it also wanted a
newer gio, which is installed by linux-base-c6.  

Now I've upgraded that, but the build still fails because it
doesn't like the gio bits installed by c6.  And c6 wanted 2
scratch files mounted, so I did that too, and again rebooted to
get everything on the same page.

But now, after doing all that,  I find that one of those changes
broke xfce.  The terminal emulator won't run:  i/o error.

Evidently these gtk ports were released untested, which was very
unprofessional and did nobody any favors.  If the maintainers are
too busy to test-and-bless the bits for which they're responsible
(I'm not criticising; I can *easily* understand how that could be
so!),  THE PORTS SHOULD BE STRUCK OFF, NOT DISTRIBUTED.  



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