Error installing port

[Mezz bsdforums.org]

It's kind of off point, forgive me. :-) Seems like you are going to test the 
vim-gtk2 patch, so can be included in the 6.2, am I right? :-D I love 
vim-gtk2, it rocks and using it for months. ;-)

Cheers,
Mezz

>Joe -
>
> > On Sat, 2003-04-19 at 11:25, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> > > I'm running FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE.  I was trying to install GTK+ 2.2.
> > > Apparently something went wrong in the dependency for glib-2.2.1:
> > >=20
> > > checking for pkg-config... /usr/local/bin/pkg-config
> > > configure: error: *** pkg-config too old; version 0.14 or better 
>required=
> > .
> > > =3D=3D=3D>  Script "configure" failed unexpectedly.
> > >       Please report the problem to gnome at FreeBSD.org [maintainer] and 
>att=
> > ach
> > >       the "/usr/ports/devel/glib20/work/glib-2.2.1/config.log" 
>including =
> > the
> > >       output of the failure of your make command. Also, it might be a 
>goo=
> > d
> > >       idea to provide an overview of all packages installed on your 
>syste=
> > m
> > >       (e.g. an `ls /var/db/pkg`).
> > >=20
> > > Apparently a dependency on the right pkg-config version is missing.
> > > Unfortunately, it's not clear to me how to get a newer pkg-config...
> >
> > Make sure you've cvsup'd the latest ports tree, and you will have
> > pkgconfig-0.15.0.  You really should be using sysutils/portupgrade to
> > keep ports up-to-date.  If you always run portupgrade -ra before
> > installing any new ports, you will never encounter problems such as
> > this.
>
>I run cvsup regularly, but not every day.  Trying it now I get:
>
>	Rejected by server: Access limit exceeded; try again later
>
>I don't have the "portupgrade" command.
>
>There are so many ways in which it can fail... :-(
>
>Anyway, I noticed there actually is a dependency on pkg-config to check
>that it exists, but it doesn't check its version.  I installed a new
>pkg-config manually and building the port continued.  I finally ran into
>a problem that can't be fixed, I suppose: Xft complains that it requires
>XFree 4.2, and I'm running 3.x.  Bummer!
>
>GTK 2.2  could have mentioned that XFree 4.2 is required right away...
>Or is there a way to build GTK 2.2 while using XFree 3.x?
>
>Since upgrading XFree isn't that simple, this will probably have to
>wait until I see a chance to upgrade my OS.
>
>- Bram
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>
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