Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 16:56:52 -0400 From: Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.org> To: Nicolai E M Plum <nicolai@esperi.org> Cc: gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ungraceful build error for devel/bonobo with stale ORBit Message-ID: <20040707205652.GG58303@toxic.magnesium.net> In-Reply-To: <16620.24641.698873.534107@hollin.esperi.net> References: <16620.24641.698873.534107@hollin.esperi.net>
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>> (07.07.2004 @ 1642 PST): Nicolai E M Plum said, in 1.1K: << > Hi > > I'm compiling the port math/gnumeric and it needs devel/bonobo, and when > compiling bonobo the configure program stops with this: > > ---- > checking ORBit version... 0.5.6 > configure: error: ORBit 0.5.12 or later required > ===> Script "configure" failed unexpectedly. > Please report the problem to gnome@FreeBSD.org [maintainer] and attach the > "/usr/ports/devel/bonobo/work/bonobo-1.0.22/config.log" including the output > of the failure of your make command. Also, it might be a good idea to provide > an overview of all packages installed on your system (e.g. an `ls > /var/db/pkg`). > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /usr/ports/devel/bonobo. > *** Error code 1 > ---- > > Rebuilding and reinstalling the devel/ORBit port allows bonobo to compile > correctly, so it's quite a straightforward problem. It's just handled rather > ungracefully and you requested a problem report about it. > > Nicolai >> end of "ungraceful build error for devel/bonobo with stale ORBit" from Nicolai E M Plum << What exactly is ungraceful -- or the slightest bit unclear -- about: > checking ORBit version... 0.5.6 > configure: error: ORBit 0.5.12 or later required FWIW, if you updated your ports tree on a regular basis, you'd have a slightly more complete error message that provides a link to a program that diagnoses this sort of thing automatically. # Adam -- Adam Weinberger adamw@magnesium.net || adamw@FreeBSD.org adamw@vectors.cx || adamw@gnome.org http://www.vectors.cx
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