Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 22:34:27 -0600 From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net> To: "Ade Lovett" <ade@freebsd.org> Cc: Peter Johnson <johnson.peter@gmail.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Impending update to devel/gettext Message-ID: <op.tntqzpt69aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> In-Reply-To: <813FE72F-0F37-4321-8B28-AA67CB352FC7@freebsd.org> References: <45D17582.2010908@gmail.com> <813FE72F-0F37-4321-8B28-AA67CB352FC7@freebsd.org>
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On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 22:01:03 -0600, Ade Lovett <ade@freebsd.org> wrote: > > On Feb 13, 2007, at 00:23 , Peter Johnson wrote: >> The correct fix is probably a patch to the gettext configure script t= o = >> disable the check for gmkdir. > > Hi Peter, > > Please see http://www.lovett.com/ade/freebsd/gettext-4.diff > > MD5 (gettext-4.diff) =3D 792085ea01e8242e7e0260bad3336efd > > This should address your issues with sysutils/coreutils being around, = = > and gettext picking up on gmkdir. I have updated it in MC without bump it, but I always can bump it for = gmkdir issue if one of my team request. Is it rare? If it is, then I thi= nk = anyone can always reinstall it. :-) > Everyone, > > In addition, as part of the ongoing cleanup of the tree as a result of= = > the deprecation of 4.x for the ports world, devel/gettext will now FAI= L = > (strangely) on 4.x. This is on purpose, and I have no plans to change= = > things back. I'm not even going to put in a "BROKEN on 4.x" stanza, = > since work is underway to remove those from the tree. > > Naturally, with the number of ports depending on devel/gettext, this = > will be a pretty good sledgehammer blow. Sounds good, I think that Kris said that 4.x support are going to be gon= e = in our tree (include bsd.*.mk) sometime soon (unsure on when, but soon).= > Assuming no further issues, I will be committing this update on or = > around 1st March 2007. > > Thanks to everyone who has provided input on this patch to date. There is no issue with GNOME 2.17/2.18 in MC so far. Cheers, Mezz > -aDe -- = mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team - FreeBSD Multimedia Hat (ports, not src) http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org http://wiki.freebsd.org/multimedia - multimedia@FreeBSD.org
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