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Date:      Wed, 22 May 2002 11:32:49 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Edward Glowacki <glowack2@msu.edu>
Cc:        gnome@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problem with gconf2 compile
Message-ID:  <20020522113146.L97677-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <1022073366.78353.450.camel@hurakan.cl.msu.edu>

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On 22 May 2002, Edward Glowacki wrote:

> I tried to compile gconf2 this morning and it failed in the middle with:
>
> gconftool.c:28: libxml/globals.h: No such file or directory
>
> I did some searching and found I was running libxml2-2.4.5, but the
> current port is libxml2-2.4.21.  I upgraded libxml2 and then gconf2 was
> able to compile OK.
>
> Just an FYI since the FreeBSD portion of the make didn't catch the
> version dependency problem...

This type of depedency isn't support yet.  Work is being done to add this
kind of version check into the ports system.


>
> Also, I noticed that there was an article on Slashdot yesterday about
> metacity, then magically a port for metacity appeared last night!  Talk
> about fast turnaround!  =)

Yeah, I just saw the article.  Apparently, sobomax is planning ahead.
After looking at the screenshots, I'm probably going to make the switch,
too.

Joe

>
> -ED
>
> --
> Edward Glowacki			glowack2@msu.edu
> Michigan State University
> "...a partial solution to the right problem is better than a complete
> solution to the wrong one." (http://uiweb.com/issues/issue14.htm)
>
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