From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Mar 17 19:29:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.36.247]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E41B515084; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 19:29:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au) Received: from bragg (bragg [129.127.36.34]) by adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.8/8.8.8/UofA-1.5) with SMTP id NAA05521; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 13:59:46 +0930 (CST) Received: from localhost by bragg; (5.65/1.1.8.2/05Aug95-0227PM) id AA02637; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 13:58:30 +0930 Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 13:58:29 +0930 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway X-Sender: kkennawa@bragg To: Satoshi Asami Cc: sheldonh@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/10461: make gimp-1.1.2 failed in GTK test... In-Reply-To: <199903162238.OAA04368@bubble.didi.com> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Satoshi Asami wrote: > * Please try again with a freshly updated ports tree. Be sure to install > * glib11-devel and gtk11-devel in that order. You may need to use > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Why does this matter? There's a dependency. :) Because glib11-devel could be anything from 1.1.4 up to 1.1.16 (well, I think the library version number may have been bumped once or twice to break up that space) and if it's too old (read: not equal to the version of gtk11-devel you're installing) the dependency check will pass, but it with either not compile, or compile but give weird runtime problems. I think ports like this where the developers frequently break backwards compatability within the same minor version number should have their library version bumped for each release - e.g. glib-1.1.16 has libglib11-devel.so.16, etc. That solves the dependency problem.. Kris > > Satoshi > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message > ----- (ASP) Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) announced today that the release of its productivity suite, Office 2000, will be delayed until the first quarter of 1901. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message