Failure to build gnome2

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Tue, 25 May 2004 16:35:08 -0400, William L Schultz <schultz at seai.us> 
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Just completed a buildworld/buildkernel on the 5.2 branch and tried
> building the gnome2 port.  Some libraries had been updated and caused
> failures (e.g. lib***.so.4 was requested but lib***.so.5 was

What is **? Please input the full, so we don't have to take any guess.

> available).  So, created a symbolic link from the *.so.4 to the *.so.5.

Create a symlink for update of library is bad.

> Then this BIG snag hit -- I need a later version of the library then
> provided in the latest source releases!  Please see attached files and
> advise.
>
> 1) gnome2.txt -- the output of the make install on /usr/ports/x11/gnome2
>
> 2) gnomeapplets.txt -- the config.log file in
> ../gnomeapplets2/work/gnome-applets-2.6.1/
>
> 3) vardbpkg.txt -- the list of installed ports/packages on my system.
>
> Thanks for your help.

Please follow the how to upgrade GNOME from 2.4 to 2.6: 
http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq26.html

Cheers,
Mezz

> Bill


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