From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 5 15:28:54 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3710816A4CE for ; Thu, 5 May 2005 15:28:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtpauth09.mail.atl.earthlink.net (smtpauth09.mail.atl.earthlink.net [209.86.89.69]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CD5843D6E for ; Thu, 5 May 2005 15:28:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from algould@datawok.com) Received: from [206.255.31.21] (helo=[192.168.63.10]) by smtpauth09.mail.atl.earthlink.net with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 4.34) id 1DTiHR-0001H3-M8; Thu, 05 May 2005 11:28:49 -0400 From: "Andrew L. Gould" To: Marco Beishuizen Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 10:28:59 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <20050505154037.S49572@yokozuna.lan> <200505050916.31297.algould@datawok.com> <20050505171223.X17820@yokozuna.lan> In-Reply-To: <20050505171223.X17820@yokozuna.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200505051028.59143.algould@datawok.com> X-ELNK-Trace: ee791d459e3d6817d780f4a490ca69563f9fea00a6dd62bcd6e8a9a70de36af75ff5d44a9cf757c9350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 206.255.31.21 cc: FreeBSD questions mailing list Subject: Re: gnumeric portupgrade fails (libgnomedb) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 15:28:54 -0000 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