Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 03:06:03 +0200 From: kusa <kusa@club-internet.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Mozilla 1.3 port problem - general question about bug report Message-ID: <200306110306.03547.kusa@club-internet.fr>
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Hello, this is the first time I am writing here, I hope I'm not posting on the wrong mailing list... I am using FreeBSD for only 2 weeks and am not yet familiar with the opensource world, so please mind my stupid questions ^^ I have a portudate problem on mozilla-1.3.1,2 after I updated my ports by cvs : I can't get it to recognize all the dependencies and it throws me this error after checking a bunch of things that are marked as ok " *** Your version of pkg-config is too old. You need version 0.9.0 or newer. *** See http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig configure: error: Library requirements (xft) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them. ===> Script "configure" failed unexpectedly. Please report the problem to gnome@FreeBSD.org [maintainer] and attach the "/usr/ports/www/mozilla/work/mozilla/config.log" including the output of the failure of your make command. Also, it might be a good idea to provide an overview of all packages installed on your system (e.g. an `ls /var/db/pkg`). *** Error code 1 " I actualy have kgconfig 0.15.0, which is the latest version and I don't really understand the "Library requirements (xft)" stuff, but when I check if all the dependencies that should be needed by the port are in my port database it seems to be ok...(I checked the dependency list on the freebsd.org/ports site) So, as you can read in the error message, it tells me to send a report to the maintainer of the port to report the problem...My question is : should I do it ? I mean, in this kind of cases is it the proper way to report the problem ? What the difference between reporting by mail to the maintener and submitting a bug report about the port ? Which one is the best ? And will I burn in hell if do a bug report or mail the maintainer and it finaly appears to be a miss I did in the install of my system ? Thanks in advance ^^
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