Gnome2 build question

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 22:07, Vladimir Belyashki wrote:
> Greetings and thanks for the great job you're doing!
> 
> I have a simple question regarding a Gnome2 build.
> Is it possible at all to build Gnome2 on a fresh
> install of FreeBSD CURRENT? After deprecating the 
> accessibility category in the ports tree many 
> components ot the Gnome2 desktop environment fail 
> to build complaining about missing atk, gail and 
> at-spi.

What do you mean?  The accessibility category wasn't deprecated, it was
added.  atk, gail, and at-spi we moved from their previous directories
into accessibility.  It sounds like you might not be cvsup'ing ports-all
(which is a mistake).  In that case, you should either change your
supfile to cvsup ports-all, or add ports-accessibility to the list of
modules (note: your cvsup server may not have this module yet, so it's
best to just cvsup ports-all).

>  The only workaround I've found so far is 
> using parts of the ports collection coming with FreeBSD 
> 5.2-RELEASE, where the mentioned above ports are 
> still present. But then they show as orphaned packets 
> in the installed software list. I've searched at 
> http://www.freshports.org/ for any solution or more 
> info but the only thing I found there was deletion 
> confirmations. Can you please suggest any way out 
> of this situation? This is not the first time I mail 
> a maintainer about port issues and all of you have 
> always been very helpful and responsive. Couple of 
> times those issues were well known so I was wondering 
> is there a FreeBSD ports mailinglist I should subscribe 
> to and save us false alerts in the future? Many thanks 
> again and keep up the superb work :).

This list (freebsd-gnome) is the canonical list.  there is also a really
good website at http://www.freebsd.org/gnome that discusses all of the
various help options.

Joe

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