Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 16:21:52 -0600 From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net> To: "Fernan Aguero" <fernan@iib.unsam.edu.ar> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems with fresh gnome-2.8.1 installation Message-ID: <opshdhqqay9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> In-Reply-To: <opshdfucez9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> References: <20041112174116.GA81073@iib.unsam.edu.ar> <opshc775le9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> <20041112193920.GC81073@iib.unsam.edu.ar> <B60B0727-34E3-11D9-BC75-000A958C81C6@ahze.net> <20041112203558.GE81073@iib.unsam.edu.ar> <opshdfucez9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com>
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On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 15:40:50 -0600, Jeremy Messenger <mezz7@cox.net> wrote: > On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 17:35:58 -0300, Fernan Aguero > <fernan@iib.unsam.edu.ar> wrote: > >> +----[ Michael Johnson <ahze@ahze.net> (12.Nov.2004 16:50): >> | >> | >> | On Nov 12, 2004, at 2:39 PM, Fernan Aguero wrote: >> | >> | >Excuse me but ... what is marcuscom? a machine you test >> | >gnome on? I mean not the building of gnome but actually >> | >using it? >> | >> | http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/develfaq.html#q3 >> | >> +----] >> >> I see. Now regarding the recommendation to add things to >> /etc/make.conf, are these flags safe to be used _globally_? > > Yes, safe but will make binary bigger and might slow down the apps. I > have a fast machine, so I can't tell the difference of speed for with > and without debug. This is only useful if you have apps that crash and > etc, so you can get the backtraces from gdb and send it to developers or > mailing list. > > Mergeant/gnome-database libraries in development version at marcuscom > (ports module) are more stable and work better, but it is still buggy. > Yes, I am talking about run them. ;-) > >> Would this affect building world, kernel and other ports? > > Yes, I usually disable them when I do the buildworld/kernel. All my > ports have been compiled with the debug, because I always use the > development version. > >> Also, in the develfaq it is mentioned that Gnome has stable >> and development versions ... what do these look like in >> marcuscom? ports-stable and ports-experimental? > > ports-stable is empty; it's for when the ports tree freeze. > ports-experimental should be gone soon or already by repo from > ports-experimental to ports. The ports is bleeding edge/development, so > it will have GNOME 2.9 soon, a unstable version. > >> Now, I'd like to have evolution working (see my previous >> post) ... is there any experimental work on this port? I >> don't see anything in ports-experimental/mail ... > > Because, there is no tarball of development version for evolution yet if > I am not mistake. I didn't check on evolution and I don't use it too. I am wrong about this, I just checked in ftp-release-list in my Inbox and it has evolution 2.1.0 for GNOME 2.9.. > Cheers, > Mezz > >> Thanks, >> >> Fernan -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org
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