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Date:      01 Jan 2003 22:48:15 -0500
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        "Gene Harris (e-mail)" <geneh@tetronsoftware.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: One Question on configure and version testing
Message-ID:  <1041479294.64114.1.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <200301012136.49358.geneh@tetronsoftware.com>
References:  <200301012136.49358.geneh@tetronsoftware.com>

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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 gnome p=
orts=20
> quitting.
>=20
> If a version is labeled with a non-numeric character in some of the gnome=
=20
> applications, the configure script gets confused and dies.
>=20
> The bsd portversion will be assigned something like 1.8.17_1 for libXml. =
 The=20
> configure script might be looking for something greater than 1.8.8.  I've=
=20
> found that all I have to do is edit the configure script and hard code th=
e=20
> libXml version into the variable "vers" and comment out the gnome-configu=
re=20
> 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

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