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Date:      Wed, 22 May 2002 12:00:02 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Edward Glowacki <glowack2@msu.edu>, <gnome@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Problem with gconf2 compile
Message-ID:  <20020522115925.H97677-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <3CEBBF31.D6089240@FreeBSD.org>

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On Wed, 22 May 2002, Maxim Sobolev wrote:

> 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.

I'm working on porting the setup tool now.  It's still very young, though.

Joe

>
> -Maxim
>
>

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