From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 20 07:40:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA21542 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 07:40:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from d132-h017.rh.rit.edu (d132-h017.rh.rit.edu [129.21.132.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA21534 for ; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 07:40:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vega@d132-h017.rh.rit.edu) Received: from localhost (vega@localhost) by d132-h017.rh.rit.edu (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA22496; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 10:35:07 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from vega@d132-h017.rh.rit.edu) Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 10:35:06 -0400 (EDT) From: VEGA To: Forrest Aldrich cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GNOME-related ports In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981020102235.00a36b20@206.25.93.69> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, Forrest Aldrich wrote: > Is it me, or is there generally a problem with the gnome ports. Specifically > gnomecore, etc. I've had a devil of a time getting them to compile (from > the ports, that is). > it *is* possible to get the ports to work, it just takes a LOT of jury-rigging with libraries etc. you can blame this on the gnome developers who think that GNU/linux is the only operating system in existance (remind you of someone else? *cough*micro$oft*cough*) once they figure THAT out it shouldnt be such a big pain in the ass to get gnome working with that said.. to get the ports to compile for me i had to reinstall gtk+1.1.2 (after getting rid of ALL previous gtk+ installations) and glib-1.1.3 as well. then i did a make install on the gnomecore port (dont install gnomelibs first, let the gnomecore port take care of that.) everytime i installed gnomelibs first gnomecore wouldnt work. hope that answers some of your questions at least... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message