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Date:      Wed, 22 May 2002 18:54:25 +0300
From:      Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
Cc:        Edward Glowacki <glowack2@msu.edu>, gnome@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problem with gconf2 compile
Message-ID:  <3CEBBF31.D6089240@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20020522113146.L97677-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com>

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Joe Clarke wrote:
> 
> On 22 May 2002, Edward Glowacki wrote:
> 
> > I tried to compile gconf2 this morning and it failed in the middle with:
> >
> > gconftool.c:28: libxml/globals.h: No such file or directory
> >
> > I did some searching and found I was running libxml2-2.4.5, but the
> > current port is libxml2-2.4.21.  I upgraded libxml2 and then gconf2 was
> > able to compile OK.
> >
> > Just an FYI since the FreeBSD portion of the make didn't catch the
> > version dependency problem...
> 
> This type of depedency isn't support yet.  Work is being done to add this
> kind of version check into the ports system.
> 
> >
> > Also, I noticed that there was an article on Slashdot yesterday about
> > metacity, then magically a port for metacity appeared last night!  Talk
> > about fast turnaround!  =)
> 
> Yeah, I just saw the article.  Apparently, sobomax is planning ahead.
> After looking at the screenshots, I'm probably going to make the switch,
> too.

Hehe, what I could say is that metacity uses much less resources that
Sawfish did, so I'm really like it. Neither performance nor operating
memory usage are among strong points of Sawfish.

-Maxim

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