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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/


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