Error installing port

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sat, 2003-04-19 at 15:39, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> Joe -
> 
> > > Anyway, I noticed there actually is a dependency on pkg-config to check
> > > that it exists, but it doesn't check its version. 
> > 
> > A current failing of the ports system.  That's why we have portupgrade.
> 
> I know the ports system can't easily check the version of a package, but
> it should be possible to add a manual check.  This might look like a
> superfluous thing to do, but it's very difficult for a user like me to
> figure out what the problem is and how to fix it.

We have to be careful here.  But this has become such an FAQ, I might
try something.

> 
> > >  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!
> > 
> > Yep.
> > 
> > > 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?
> > 
> > There used to be up until this latest version.
> 
> Is there any way to go back to the version that worked for me?  I
> suppose this would mean taking the whole ports tree back to that point.
> Don't know if that is possible and I don't know what version that would
> have to be...
> 
> If I know the version that works, I could try installing the binary
> package.

gtk-2.0.x works with XFree86-3.3.x.  You'll need pango-1.0.x,
glib-2.0.x, and atk-1.0.x.  Note, there are many GTK+/GNOME apps that
won't work with these versions.

Joe

> 
> > However, I put the error
> > as low down as I could.  That is, on a clean system, if you type make
> > install in x11-toolkits/gtk20, it will recursively build dependencies
> > until it gets to Xft, where it will fail.  Doing it this way lets me get
> > all the dependent ports as well.
> 
> For me it means > 10 Mbyte got downloaded and my system spends half an
> hour compiling only to find out it doesn't work :-(.
> 
> > > Since upgrading XFree isn't that simple, this will probably have to
> > > wait until I see a chance to upgrade my OS.
> > 
> > Not sure if there are other issues at play here, put it may be as simple
> > as building x11/XFree86-4.  Eric did some work to make sure that kind of
> > thing went smoothly with 3.x already installed.  All apps should
> > continue to work just fine.  And, if you actually have XFree86-3.3.6
> > installed as a package, portupgrade can help you bring it up to 4.x.
> 
> I have tried this in the past, but ran into problems and couldn't go
> back, resulting in having to reinstall the whole system.  Don't want to
> take that risk now.
> 
> This time I managed to break the GTK 2.0 install that I have (that's
> real 2.0, not 2.2.1).  I think it happened because pkg-config got
> updated.  Not a huge problem, but not nice anyway.  Furtunately the rest
> still appears to work.
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