Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 20:00:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/12541: gtk installs itself where it can't be found Message-ID: <199907070300.UAA72396@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/12541; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net> Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/12541: gtk installs itself where it can't be found Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 12:21:38 +0930 On Tuesday, 6 July 1999 at 21:27:59 -0500, Steve Price wrote: > On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > > # >Description: > # > # x11-toolkits/gtk12 installs its files in > # /usr/X11R6/include/gtk12 and /usr/X11R6/lib/libgtk12. It's > # possible to find these paths with the config utility, which in > # the source tree is called gtk-config, and some ports (at least > # xscreensaver) do this, but the file gets installed as > # /usr/X11R6/bin/gtk12-config, which breaks configuration > # scripts. > > This is because we have multiple copies of the gtk* ports. The > gtk-1.0 port installs gtk-config. The gtk-1.1 installs gtk11-config. > The gtk-1.2 port installs gtk12-config. Same goes for the glib* > ports. This is not a bug, rather by design to allow multiple versions > of the same port to co-exist because for awhile the gtk* and glib* > ports were so fast a moving target that we had ports requiring > different minor versions of the three ports we had in the tree. I > think most of the ports now use gtk-1.2, so this is not much of a > problem now. In fact, > > bonsai[/usr/ports]$ grep x11-toolkits/gtk12 */*/Makefile | wc -l > 61 > bonsai[/usr/ports]$ grep x11-toolkits/gtk11 */*/Makefile | wc -l > 0 > bonsai[/usr/ports]$ grep x11-toolkits/gtk10 */*/Makefile | wc -l > 7 > > Looks likes we should remove the gtk11 port now since it is not > used. The gtk10 port can probably go too, if we mark the few that > use it as broken until we get them to work with gtk12. > > Were you having problems with any ports in particular needing > gtk-config that didn't have a dependency on the gtk10 port? Or > was this with software not in the ports collection? This was with x11/xscreensaver (see the PR I've entered against that port). It goes out looking for gtk-config and doesn't find it. I can appreciate that there might be a need to link against a specific version of gtk, and the current method is fine for software that knows what it's looking for, but most software would expect to be able to find *something* under the name gtk-config. That's why my suggested fix was a link, not a rename. I still think this is a bug, not a feature. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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