freebsd 5.4 gnome 2.12 build problems.

[Ken Easson]

On 20-Feb-06, at 3:03 PM, Gary Jennejohn wrote:

>
> Ken Easson writes:
>> I've upgraded kernel and userland to Freebsd 6.1, i've followed the
>> instructions in the Freebsd manual to completely remove all gnome2
>> (pkg_delete -rf pkgconfig\* ), and have deinstalled and reinstalled
>> xorg.
>>
>> while trying to build gnome2 again (after a reboot) using "make 
>> install
>> clean" the build Stopped with the same error in librsvg-2.12.7 as i've
>> previously posted.
>>
>
> I just did a _virgin_ install of gnome2 on my 64-bit system and had NO
> problems whatsoever!
>
> Note: virgin means there was _never_ a previous installtion of gnome2
> on my machine, since I find gnome much too bloated to be useful.
>
> Anyway, this leads me to conclude that there's a remnant of some gnome2
> dependency on your machine which is causing all the problems.
>
> I recommend a radical cure:
>
> 1) delete /usr/X11R6
> 2) delete /usr/local
> 3) delete /var/db/pkg/*
> 4) delete /var/db/ports/*
> 5) do a fresh install of gnome2
>
> for Ernst Winter: I also installed AbiWord with no problem. I suspect 
> you
> have similar trash on your system.
>
> ---
> Gary Jennejohn / garyjATjennejohnDOTorg gjATfreebsdDOTorg 
> garyjATdenxDOTde
>
>
>
Thank you.

I have managed to get past the problem by copying the libgsf-1.so.12 
file from the /usr/local/lib/contrib folder and then symlinknig that to 
libgsf-1.so.12 whether that will actually fix the underlying problem or 
not - i don't know. Seems for some reason on my system that librsvg 
requires a symlinked version of libgsf, while the new libgsf 1.13 
doesn't create such a file. I'm still in the process or rebuilding 
Gnome2, however - once i'm finished i'll post my success.

thanks again.

ken easson