From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 10 18:03:48 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E3EF37B408 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2003 18:03:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mwinf0303.wanadoo.fr (smtp6.wanadoo.fr [193.252.22.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B463E43F75 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2003 18:03:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kusa@club-internet.fr) Received: from AAmiens-106-1-14-169.w81-48.abo.wanadoo.fr (unknown [81.48.89.169]) by mwinf0303.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 63E5B50008E3 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 03:03:43 +0200 (CEST) From: kusa To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 03:06:03 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200306110306.03547.kusa@club-internet.fr> Subject: Mozilla 1.3 port problem - general question about bug report X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 01:03:48 -0000 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 ^^