From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Mar 14 21:11:55 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42C4237B404 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 21:11:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03.attbi.com [204.127.202.63]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EFE443F3F for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 21:11:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DougB@freebsd.org) Received: from master.gorean.org (12-234-22-23.client.attbi.com[12.234.22.23]) by sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03) with SMTP id <2003031505115100300eht94e>; Sat, 15 Mar 2003 05:11:52 +0000 Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 21:11:50 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Barton To: Joe Marcus Clarke Cc: Kris Kennaway , Peter Wu , ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fail to build XEmacs with GTK In-Reply-To: <1047645619.2553.4.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Message-ID: <20030314210940.N1839@znfgre.tberna.bet> References: <1047615404.66262.7.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20030314043154.GA94526@rot13.obsecurity.org> <1047616453.66262.10.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20030313230858.H1839@znfgre.tberna.bet> <1047645619.2553.4.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-message-flag: Outlook -- Not just for spreading viruses anymore! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 02:09, Doug Barton wrote: > > On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > > > > However, WITH/WANT_GTK are deprecated, > > > > I never saw a good explanation for this. If I just want gtk, why do I have > > to get *_GNOME involved? > > It allowed us to scale more, and remove redundancy. For example, you > can have WITH_GTK (that's fine). But what about GTK2, GTK3, etc.? With > one macro that allows for listing, we can better accommodate things like > this. After 4.8 is released, the USE_GNOMENG macro will go away, so > you'll be down to just USE_GNOME= . Sorry, you haven't actually answered my question. Why were the gtk knobs sucked into gnome? gnome is one consumer of gtk, but there are many others. > (And, for backwards compatibility's sake, WITH_GTK will still be around > for a while). IMO, it should stay around in perpetuity. Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message