broken builds

[Chuck Robey]

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Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> Chuck Robey wrote:
>> Chuck Robey wrote:
>>> Hello, you and I haven't spoken for a great long time now.  I'm
>>> having a problem
>>> with the building of ORBit2, but I understand from looking over the
>>> web, that
>>> the problem is rather more widespread, hitting everything which wants
>>> to run
>>> /usr/local/bin/orbit-idl-2.
>>
>>> The problem is that ldd reports that orbit-idl-2 (built from
>>> devel/ORBit2) needs
>>>  to be rebuilt because it relies upon an old lib from devel/icu2, but
>>> it fails
>>> to rebuild with an error, not able to figure out a symbol named
>>> G_GNUC_PRETTY_FUNCTION, which is obviously a #define.  Looking over
>>> the error,
>>> it's because of a missing symbols in glib20, and there are a flock of
>>> error
>>> reports on the web about this.  The only answer I have seen, so far,
>>> is that it
>>> broke in glib version 21.6, so one should move glib back to 2.15.1 
>>> Too bad,
>>> because the glib20 port seemed to  have jumped from 2.14 to 2.16.1.
>>
>>> OK, so, ultimately, I can't build gnome2 because of this.  I've no
>>> idea just how
>>> many other ports might be affected.  I was sort of wondering if a
>>> different
>>> solution existed, or if maybe one might consider rolling the glib20
>>> port back to
>>> 2.15.1 until this gets fixed by the glib folks?
>>
>> One more comment: I just locally slid my glib back to 2.15.3, and it
>> seems to
>> have fixed everything.  Unless you have a fix for the
>> G_GNUC_PRETTY_FUNCTION
>> problem, that's a short term solution which works.
> 
> Glib 2.15.x are development (i.e. unstable versions).  IT looks like
> you've built glib20 with COLLATION_FIX OPTION which is non-default.  Try
> rebuilding glib20 without this.  GNOME builds just fine in a clean
> environment.
> 
> Joe
> 

Umm, you're saying that the version is now in ports, the 2.16.3, is stable, and
the earlier 2.15.3 is not?  OhhK, surprises the heck out of me, I'd always
assumed earlier versions were more stable, usually.
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