Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 00:11:14 -0500 From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net> To: rloefgren@forethought.net Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Compiling gtk12 - Too many symbolic links Message-ID: <op.tsyzc0nq9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> In-Reply-To: <20070526101206.Q75369@auden.jmla.com> References: <20070526101206.Q75369@auden.jmla.com>
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On Sat, 26 May 2007 11:18:09 -0500, <rloefgren@forethought.net> wrote: > Sirs, > > I've recently waded through the Xorg-7.2 upgrade process on my = > FreeBSD-6.2 box and, although it went pretty smoothly I have hit a sna= g. = > I have just tried to compile multimedia/xmms and it failed with the = > error "too many (levels of) symbolic links". On a closer look it was t= he = > gtk12-config script that was failing, like so (from compile attempt of= = > xmms): How did you upgrade it? by follow the /usr/ports/UPDATING? > checking for GLIB - version >=3D 1.2.2... yes > checking for gtk-config... /usr/local/bin/gtk12-config > checking for GTK - version >=3D 1.2.2... ./configure.lineno: = > /usr/local/bin/gtk12-config: Too many levels of symbolic links > ./configure.lineno: /usr/local/bin/gtk12-config: Too many levels of = > symbolic links > ./configure.lineno: /usr/local/bin/gtk12-config: Too many levels of = > symbolic links > ./configure.lineno: /usr/local/bin/gtk12-config: Too many levels of = > symbolic links > ./configure.lineno: /usr/local/bin/gtk12-config: Too many levels of = > symbolic links > no > *** Could not run GTK test program, checking why... > > If this is real and not just me being a bone-head, hope this helps. I can't reproduce it here with xorg 7.2. Try to run a few of commands: # /usr/local/bin/gtk12-config --version # /usr/local/bin/gtk12-config --cflags # /usr/local/bin/gtk12-config --libs # /usr/local/bin/gtk12-config --libs gthread But... We still need the more info. You can follow in = http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/bugging.html for what to give us more = = info. Cheers, Mezz > r -- = mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team - FreeBSD Multimedia Hat (ports, not src) http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org http://wiki.freebsd.org/multimedia - multimedia@FreeBSD.org
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