From owner-freebsd-gnome Wed Jan 1 19:56:56 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA7C337B401 for ; Wed, 1 Jan 2003 19:56:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns1.tetronsoftware.com (ns1.tetronsoftware.com [65.67.249.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BEE543EC2 for ; Wed, 1 Jan 2003 19:56:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from geneh@tetronsoftware.com) Received: from ns1.tetronsoftware.com (ns1.tetronsoftware.com [65.67.249.85]) by ns1.tetronsoftware.com (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h023urZ6004968; Wed, 1 Jan 2003 21:56:53 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from geneh@tetronsoftware.com) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Gene Harris (e-mail)" Organization: Tetron Software, LLC To: Joe Marcus Clarke Subject: Re: One Question on configure and version testing Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2003 21:56:53 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <200301012136.49358.geneh@tetronsoftware.com> <1041479294.64114.1.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <1041479294.64114.1.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200301012156.53253.geneh@tetronsoftware.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG gnomeprint and bonobo both had the problem. I cvsup'ed the ports tree ag= ain,=20 after deleting the ports completly, just in case something was wrong. The configure script flipped out while checking libXml in gnomeprint and=20 bonobo and libIDL in bonobo. I just hard coded the vers variable to get=20 around the error. Gene On Wednesday 01 January 2003 09:48 pm, you wrote: > On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 22:36, Gene Harris (e-mail) wrote: > > I am having a bit of a problem with the configure scripts on some gno= me > > ports quitting. > > > > If a version is labeled with a non-numeric character in some of the g= nome > > applications, the configure script gets confused and dies. > > > > The bsd portversion will be assigned something like 1.8.17_1 for libX= ml.=20 > > The configure script might be looking for something greater than 1.8.= 8.=20 > > I've found that all I have to do is edit the configure script and har= d > > code the libXml version into the variable "vers" and comment out the > > gnome-configure extraction of the version. This seems a bit tedious.= Is > > there a better fix? > > This shouldn't be happening at all. What port(s) is giving you a > problem? The _1 isn't included in the actual version of the installed > port. This is only used for FreeBSD port purposes. The version > reported by the libxml-config or the like should be 1.8.17. > > Joe > > > Gene > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message