Date: 24 Mar 2003 20:42:17 -0800 From: Tim Showalter <tjs@psaux.com> To: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: confusion about xscreensaver-gnome Message-ID: <emacs-28583-15999-56873-234489@funhouse.mirapoint.com>
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I have some questions about this port. I'd like to run 4.09 instead of
the currently ported 4.08, but I'm having some problems doing so. I
can't get things to play nicely.
I'm running FreeBSD 4.5, and have upgraded things piecemeal so many
times it's quite likely I have introduced problems.
I have three problems:
(1) xscreensaver works okay but the gnome startup sequence hangs if my
built-from-source version is installed but not if the /usr/ports
version is installed. I'd like to understand why. I assume I'm not
including enough of the options that ports supplies but it looks
like jwz's verion should "just work", and I'd like to help fix that.
(2) I don't understand some of the patches and I suspect they're
obsolete. (Configuring datadir is redundant in one of the
Makefiles; --without-gnome is the default if GNOME 2.x exists on the
system anyway; etc.) I'd like to help either get rid of these so
the upstream version works better, or otherwise try and get them
merged in.
(3) some (new) hacks in 4.09 crash where similar hacks in 4.08 don't.
I'd like to upgrade and get everything else working before I try and
find the culprit (based on a backtrace, jwz blames Mesa but I don't
have a way to substantiate that yet, and the behavior of some hacks
between the 4.08 and 4.09 versions differs but I can't understand
why).
I suspect gnome@freebsd.org is a mailing list, but I can't figure out
where such a list would exist. If it is, and I should be subscribed to
it to talk about this, please let me know.
Thanks!
Tim
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