Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 15:11:26 -0500 From: Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org> To: Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com> 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> In-Reply-To: <14702.7134.706893.405358@onceler.kcilink.com>; from khera@kciLink.com on Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 03:43:26PM -0400 References: <200007131934.MAA65720@freefall.freebsd.org> <14702.7134.706893.405358@onceler.kcilink.com>
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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
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