From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Jul 13 13:11:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from coredump.lovett.com (hub.lovett.com [216.60.121.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE75B37C502; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 13:11:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ade@lovett.com) Received: from ade by coredump.lovett.com with local (Exim 3.15 #1) id 13CpKQ-000JOT-00; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 15:11:26 -0500 Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 15:11:26 -0500 From: Ade Lovett To: Vivek Khera Cc: jim@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/19304: gimp fails to build glib and gdk dependencies Message-ID: <20000713151125.L2679@FreeBSD.org> References: <200007131934.MAA65720@freefall.freebsd.org> <14702.7134.706893.405358@onceler.kcilink.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <14702.7134.706893.405358@onceler.kcilink.com>; from khera@kciLink.com on Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 03:43:26PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 03:43:26PM -0400, Vivek Khera wrote: > Manually updating glib to 1.2.8 causes it to work. The dependency > check is not strict enough it seems. Indeed. There are people looking at extending the dependency mechanism to something approaching NetBSD's, where it is possible to specify the version number of a dependent port, and not just based on the existence (or not) of a program and/or shared library with a particularly revision number. -aDe -- Ade Lovett, Austin, TX. ade@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message