Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 18:09:09 +0000 From: Erich Dollansky <oceanare@pacific.net.sg> To: Simon Barner <barner@in.tum.de> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing gnmoe 2.6 fails in building gnome-mime-data 2.4.1 Message-ID: <40759545.9080802@pacific.net.sg> In-Reply-To: <20040407234020.GB1277@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de> References: <4073DA6F.2010303@pacific.net.sg> <20040407125926.GE68519@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de> <4073FEE6.9040802@pacific.net.sg> <20040407234020.GB1277@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de>
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Hi, Simon Barner wrote: > Erich Dollansky wrote: > >>>It looks like your gettext installation is broken. Since your ports tree >>>is up-to-date, your gettext version should be 0.13.1_1. >>> >> >>gettext is not even installed. >> >>I have had to install the machine from scratch after a very weird >>problem with a CD. >> >>I assume that installing gettext should fix the problem but it >>also shows that the port has a problem not recognising a missing >>gettext. > > > Hmm, misc/gnomeminedata uses the following Gnome packages: > > USE_GNOME= gnomehack gnomehier gnomeprefix gnometarget pkgconfig > > devel/pkgconfig, for example, has a > > USE_GMAKE=YES, > > and devel/gmake depends on devel/gettext: > > USE_GETTEXT=YES > > I deleted gettext from my system, and ran ``make depend'' in > misc/gnomemimedata, and to my surprise, nothing happened, but as soon as > I ran ``make build'', the ports system detected the missing gettext > dependency and began re-installing it. > Don't the scripts call 'make depend' when they want to make sure that the libraries are all build? > I am a bit puzzled why this didn't happen in your case, but installing > gettext manually surely won't harm ;-) I think it happend the same way in my case. It is a rather rare case that someone installs this packes from source on a real empty machine. The rest of the installation was smooth. I just got the fifth toe compiled. Thanks for your help. Erich
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