Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 10:28:59 -0500 From: "Andrew L. Gould" <algould@datawok.com> To: Marco Beishuizen <marco@beishuizen.info> Cc: FreeBSD questions mailing list <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: gnumeric portupgrade fails (libgnomedb) Message-ID: <200505051028.59143.algould@datawok.com> In-Reply-To: <20050505171223.X17820@yokozuna.lan> References: <20050505154037.S49572@yokozuna.lan> <200505050916.31297.algould@datawok.com> <20050505171223.X17820@yokozuna.lan>
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On Thursday 05 May 2005 10:14 am, Marco Beishuizen wrote:
> On stardate Thu, 5 May 2005, the wise Andrew L. Gould entered:
> > Hi Marco,
> >
> > Do you need gnome-db? (Better yet, have you seen **any**
> > documentation as how to use gnome-db from within gnumeric?)
>
> I don't think so. I thought Gnumeric needed it, it's installed as a
> dependency. Other gnome applications may also need it I guess.
>
> > CONFIGURE_ARGS for the gnumeric port includes "--with-gnome-db".
> > Perhaps you could try doing make without gnome-db ("make
> > --without-gnome-db"?) and then do portupgrade.
>
> I'll try but if that argument is in the configure, doesn't that
> imply that Gnumeric needs it?
>
> Thanks,
> Marco
I think that the fact that it's a configuration argument implies that
it's optional. (If it wasn't optional, why would the option be
available.) The question that remains would be whether there are
features of gnumeric that you use that require gnome-db.
Andrew Gould
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