HEADS UP: GNOME 2.16.1 has been committed

Michael Johnson ahze at ahze.net
Sun Oct 15 17:42:44 PDT 2006


On 10/15/06, martinko <gamato at pobox.sk> wrote:
> Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > The FreeBSD GNOME Team is proud to announce that GNOME 2.16.1 has been
> > imported into the ports tree in time for FreeBSD 6.2.  This is a first.
> > Usually the GNOME release cycle has conflicted with the FreeBSD release
> > cycle.  However, thanks to Kris and pointyhat, we were able to get the
> > major patch tested.  Below is the commit message that accompanied this
> > huge release.  In addition to the core GNOME ports, almost 500 ports
> > were also touched to chase the GNOME move from X11BASE to LOCALBASE and
> > fix build problems with the new freetype2.
> >
> > "Presenting GNOME 2.16.1 for FreeBSD.  This release represents a massive
> > amount of work by the FreeBSD GNOME Team and our testers.
> >
> > On top of the usual GNOME update, we have taken this opportunity to move
> > GNOME from X11BASE to LOCALBASE.  This means roughly 600 ports NOT part of
> > the GNOME Desktop also need to be changed.  The bulk of the move was carried
> > out by ahze, mezz, and pav, but it would not have been possible without
> > cooperation from the FreeBSD KDE team who worked with us to make sure
> > GNOME and KDE can still coexist happily.  We would also like to send a
> > shout out to kris and pointyhat for putting up with multiple test runs
> > until we got something that was solid.
> >
> > Back to GNOME 2.16.  This release brings a huge amount of new functionality
> > to FreeBSD.  The standard release notes can be read at
> > http://www.gnome.org/start/2.16/ .  But on top of what you will read there,
> > jylefort and marcus have completed work on a port of HAL to FreeBSD.  This
> > will allow FreeBSD to take advantage of closer hardware interaction such
> > as auto-mounting CD-ROMs, USB drives, and music players; auto-playing
> > audio CDs; and managing laptop power consumption.
> >
>
> Hello and thanks for your hard work!
>
> I've been using WITH_GECKO=seamonkey (and WITH_MOZILLA=seamonkey) and
> now when trying to install new Gnome (after uninstalling nearly
> everything) I've got the following error message from yelp installation:
>
> checking which gecko to use... seamonkey
> checking for compiler -fshort-wchar option... yes
> checking whether to enable C++ RTTI... no
> checking whether we have a gtk 2 gecko build... yes
> checking whether we have a gecko debug build... no
> checking for gecko version... 1.8
> configure: error: seamonkey is not supported
> ===>  Script "configure" failed unexpectedly.
> Please run the gnomelogalyzer, available from
> "http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/gnomelogalyzer.sh", which will diagnose the
> problem and suggest a solution. If - and only if - the gnomelogalyzer cannot
> solve the problem, report the build failure to the FreeBSD GNOME team at
> gnome at FreeBSD.org, and attach (a)
> "/usr/ports/x11/yelp/work/yelp-2.16.1/config.log", (b) the output of the
> failed make command, and (c) the gnomelogalyzer output. Also, it might be a
> good idea to provide an overview of all packages installed on your system
> (i.e. an `ls /var/db/pkg`). Put your attachment up on any website,
> copy-and-paste into http://freebsd-gnome.pastebin.com, or use send-pr(1)
> with
> the attachment. Try to avoid sending any attachments to the mailing list
> (gnome at FreeBSD.org), because attachments sent to FreeBSD mailing lists are
> usually discarded by the mailing list software.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/x11/yelp.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/x11/yelp.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/x11/gnome2-lite.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/x11/gnome2-lite.
> ** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa
> /tmp/portinstall.3919.0 env make reinstall
> ** Fix the installation problem and try again.
> --->  Installation of x11/gnome2-lite ended at: Mon, 16 Oct 2006
> 00:24:55 +0200 (consumed 00:04:15)
> --->  Fresh installation of x11/gnome2-lite ended at: Mon, 16 Oct 2006
> 00:24:55 +0200 (consumed 00:05:26)
> --->  ** Install tasks 1: 0 done, 0 ignored, 0 skipped and 1 failed
> [Updating the pkgdb <format:bdb_btree> in /var/db/pkg ... - 372 packages
> found (-0 +1) . done]
> --->  Listing the results (+:done / -:ignored / *:skipped / !:failed)
>         ! x11/gnome2-lite       (install error)
> --->  Packages processed: 0 done, 0 ignored, 0 skipped and 1 failed
> --->  Session ended at: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 00:24:57 +0200 (consumed 00:06:22)
>
> I cannot see a reason why seamonkey wouldn't be supported (and it's
> listed in yelp/Makefile).
> Could you please check and fix this ?
>

I disabled seamonkey support for now. Seamonkey used to work in
yelp.

> Cheers,
>
> Martin
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