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Date:      Thu, 18 Mar 1999 13:58:29 +0930 (CST)
From:      Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        sheldonh@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ports/10461: make gimp-1.1.2 failed in GTK test...
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.4.10.9903181355160.19710-100000@bragg>
In-Reply-To: <199903162238.OAA04368@bubble.didi.com>

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On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Satoshi Asami wrote:

>  *  Please try again with a freshly updated ports tree. Be sure to install
>  *  glib11-devel and gtk11-devel in that order. You may need to use
>                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Why does this matter?  There's a dependency. :)

Because glib11-devel could be anything from 1.1.4 up to 1.1.16 (well, I think
the library version number may have been bumped once or twice to break up that
space) and if it's too old (read: not equal to the version of gtk11-devel
you're installing) the dependency check will pass, but it with either not
compile, or compile but give weird runtime problems.

I think ports like this where the developers frequently break backwards
compatability within the same minor version number should have their library
version bumped for each release - e.g. glib-1.1.16 has libglib11-devel.so.16,
etc. That solves the dependency problem..

Kris

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