Compiling gtk12 - Too many symbolic links

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Sat, 26 May 2007 11:18:09 -0500, <rloefgren at forethought.net> wrote:

> Sirs,
>
> I've recently waded through the Xorg-7.2 upgrade process on my  
> FreeBSD-6.2 box and, although it went pretty smoothly I have hit a snag.  
> I have just tried to compile multimedia/xmms and it failed with the  
> error "too many (levels of) symbolic links". On a closer look it was the  
> gtk12-config script that was failing, like so (from compile attempt of  
> xmms):

How did you upgrade it? by follow the /usr/ports/UPDATING?

> checking for GLIB - version >= 1.2.2... yes
> checking for gtk-config... /usr/local/bin/gtk12-config
> checking for GTK - version >= 1.2.2... ./configure.lineno:  
> /usr/local/bin/gtk12-config: Too many levels of symbolic links
> ./configure.lineno: /usr/local/bin/gtk12-config: Too many levels of  
> symbolic links
> ./configure.lineno: /usr/local/bin/gtk12-config: Too many levels of  
> symbolic links
> ./configure.lineno: /usr/local/bin/gtk12-config: Too many levels of  
> symbolic links
> ./configure.lineno: /usr/local/bin/gtk12-config: Too many levels of  
> symbolic links
> no
> *** Could not run GTK test program, checking why...
>
> If this is real and not just me being a bone-head, hope this helps.

I can't reproduce it here with xorg 7.2. Try to run a few of commands:

	# /usr/local/bin/gtk12-config --version
	# /usr/local/bin/gtk12-config --cflags
	# /usr/local/bin/gtk12-config --libs
	# /usr/local/bin/gtk12-config --libs gthread

But... We still need the more info. You can follow in  
http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/bugging.html for what to give us more  
info.

Cheers,
Mezz

> r


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