problems with fresh gnome-2.8.1 installation

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 15:40:50 -0600, Jeremy Messenger <mezz7 at cox.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 17:35:58 -0300, Fernan Aguero  
> <fernan at iib.unsam.edu.ar> wrote:
>
>> +----[ Michael Johnson <ahze at ahze.net> (12.Nov.2004 16:50):
>> |
>> |
>> | On Nov 12, 2004, at 2:39 PM, Fernan Aguero wrote:
>> |
>> | >Excuse me but ... what is marcuscom? a machine you test
>> | >gnome on? I mean not the building of gnome but actually
>> | >using it?
>> |
>> | http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/develfaq.html#q3
>> |
>> +----]
>>
>> I see. Now regarding the recommendation to add things to
>> /etc/make.conf, are these flags safe to be used _globally_?
>
> Yes, safe but will make binary bigger and might slow down the apps. I  
> have a fast machine, so I can't tell the difference of speed for with  
> and without debug. This is only useful if you have apps that crash and  
> etc, so you can get the backtraces from gdb and send it to developers or  
> mailing list.
>
> Mergeant/gnome-database libraries in development version at marcuscom  
> (ports module) are more stable and work better, but it is still buggy.  
> Yes, I am talking about run them. ;-)
>
>> Would this affect building world, kernel and other ports?
>
> Yes, I usually disable them when I do the buildworld/kernel. All my  
> ports have been compiled with the debug, because I always use the  
> development version.
>
>> Also, in the develfaq it is mentioned that Gnome has stable
>> and development versions ... what do these look like in
>> marcuscom? ports-stable and ports-experimental?
>
> ports-stable is empty; it's for when the ports tree freeze.  
> ports-experimental should be gone soon or already by repo from  
> ports-experimental to ports. The ports is bleeding edge/development, so  
> it will have GNOME 2.9 soon, a unstable version.
>
>> Now, I'd like to have evolution working (see my previous
>> post) ... is there any experimental work on this port? I
>> don't see anything in ports-experimental/mail ...
>
> Because, there is no tarball of development version for evolution yet if  
> I am not mistake. I didn't check on evolution and I don't use it too.

I am wrong about this, I just checked in ftp-release-list in my Inbox and  
it has evolution 2.1.0 for GNOME 2.9..

> Cheers,
> Mezz
>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Fernan


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