ungraceful build error for devel/bonobo with stale ORBit

[Adam Weinberger]

>> (07.07.2004 @ 1642 PST): Nicolai E M Plum said, in 1.1K: <<
> Hi
> 
> I'm compiling the port math/gnumeric and it needs devel/bonobo, and when
> compiling bonobo the configure program stops with this:
> 
> ----
> checking ORBit version... 0.5.6
> configure: error: ORBit 0.5.12 or later required
> ===>  Script "configure" failed unexpectedly.
> Please report the problem to gnome at FreeBSD.org [maintainer] and attach the
> "/usr/ports/devel/bonobo/work/bonobo-1.0.22/config.log" including the output
> of the failure of your make command. Also, it might be a good idea to provide
> an overview of all packages installed on your system (e.g. an `ls
> /var/db/pkg`).
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports/devel/bonobo.
> *** Error code 1
> ----
> 
> Rebuilding and reinstalling the devel/ORBit port allows bonobo to compile
> correctly, so it's quite a straightforward problem. It's just handled rather
> ungracefully and you requested a problem report about it.
> 
> Nicolai
>> end of "ungraceful build error for devel/bonobo with stale ORBit" from Nicolai E M Plum <<

What exactly is ungraceful -- or the slightest bit unclear -- about:

> checking ORBit version... 0.5.6
> configure: error: ORBit 0.5.12 or later required

FWIW, if you updated your ports tree on a regular basis, you'd have a
slightly more complete error message that provides a link to a program
that diagnoses this sort of thing automatically.

# Adam


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