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Date:      01 Jan 2003 23:12:50 -0500
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        "Gene Harris (e-mail)" <geneh@tetronsoftware.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: One Question on configure and version testing
Message-ID:  <1041480770.64114.3.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <200301012156.53253.geneh@tetronsoftware.com>
References:  <200301012136.49358.geneh@tetronsoftware.com> <1041479294.64114.1.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <200301012156.53253.geneh@tetronsoftware.com>

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On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 22:56, Gene Harris (e-mail) wrote:
> gnomeprint and bonobo both had the problem.  I cvsup'ed the ports tree again, 
> after deleting the ports completly, just in case something was wrong.
> 
> The configure script flipped out while checking libXml in gnomeprint and 
> bonobo and libIDL in bonobo.  I just hard coded the vers variable to get 
> around the error.

Can you send the exact output of configure as well as the config.log
from both ports?  I think there may still be a problem in your setup.

Joe

> 
> Gene
> 
> On Wednesday 01 January 2003 09:48 pm, you wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 22:36, Gene Harris (e-mail) wrote:
> > > I am having a bit of a problem with the configure scripts on some gnome
> > > ports quitting.
> > >
> > > If a version is labeled with a non-numeric character in some of the gnome
> > > applications, the configure script gets confused and dies.
> > >
> > > The bsd portversion will be assigned something like 1.8.17_1 for libXml. 
> > > The configure script might be looking for something greater than 1.8.8. 
> > > I've found that all I have to do is edit the configure script and hard
> > > code the libXml version into the variable "vers" and comment out the
> > > gnome-configure extraction of the version.  This seems a bit tedious.  Is
> > > there a better fix?
> >
> > This shouldn't be happening at all.  What port(s) is giving you a
> > problem? The _1 isn't included in the actual version of the installed
> > port.  This is only used for FreeBSD port purposes.  The version
> > reported by the libxml-config or the like should be 1.8.17.
> >
> > Joe
> >
> > > Gene
> > >
> > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
> > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message
> 
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