Gnome 2.16 upgrade failed (yeah, I read /usr/src/UPDATING)

[Rainer Alves]

Clint Olsen wrote:
> I ran the exact commands specified in the UPDATING file, and I eventually
> get:
> 
> ** Listing the failed packages (*:skipped / !:failed)
>         ! devel/py-gobject (py24-gobject-2.10.1)        (new compiler error)
>         ! graphics/py-cairo (py24-cairo-1.0.2_1)        (new compiler error)
>         ! devel/py-orbit (py24-orbit-2.14.1)    (new compiler error)
>         ! textproc/gnome-doc-utils (gnome-doc-utils-0.6.1)      (new compiler error)
>         * misc/gnome-user-docs (gnomeuserdocs2-2.14.2)
>         ! multimedia/mplayer (mplayer-0.99.8_3) (install error)
>         ! www/mozilla (mozilla-1.7.13,2)        (bad C++ code)
>         ! devel/libglade2 (libglade2-2.6.0)     (new compiler error)
>         ...

I've also had some of this errors, so I'll comment on mplayer and mozilla:

* mplayer:
[rainer at bsd /usr/ports/multimedia/mplayer]$ make showconfig | grep -i skin
      SKINS=on "Force dependency on mplayer-skins"
In my case, mplayer decided to install the dependecy mplayer-skins 
during its install phase, the mplayer-skins' distfiles were corrupted 
and it failed to install multimedia/mplayer. I was able to fix this with 
a rm -f /usr/ports/distfiles/mplayer/* (which removes the skins distfiles).

* mozilla:
It's broken due to some freetype internals, the error message is this:

nsType1.cpp:371: error: invalid conversion from `int (*)(FT_Vector*, 
void*)' to `int (*)(const FT_Vector*, void*)'
nsType1.cpp:371: error: invalid conversion from `int (*)(FT_Vector*, 
void*)' to `int (*)(const FT_Vector*, void*)'
nsType1.cpp:371: error: invalid conversion from `int (*)(FT_Vector*, 
FT_Vector*, void*)' to `int (*)(const FT_Vector*, const FT_Vector*, void*)'
nsType1.cpp:371: error: invalid conversion from `int (*)(FT_Vector*, 
FT_Vector*, FT_Vector*, void*)' to `int (*)(const FT_Vector*, const 
FT_Vector*, const FT_Vector*, void*)'
make[4]: *** [nsType1.o] Error 1

The fix/patch is here: 
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-bugs/2006/06/05/0005.html

Besides these two, I have some other thoughts regarding the gnome 2.16 
upgrade:
- graphics/cairo failed the first time during the configure phase 
(complaining it couldn't find a suitable "glitz" version), I had to 
check config.log and found out it was looking for glitz > 0.5, while the 
installed version was still 0.4.*. I solved this by forcing the glitz 
upgrade first (portupgrade -f graphics/glitz) and then I was able to 
upgrade graphics/cairo.
- For some unknown reason, all my fonts look like crap on 
firefox/thunderbird after the gnome upgrade. All TTF fonts are available 
as before, but there are some serious problems with anti-aliasing & 
hinting, I'm not sure if it's related to the freetype upgrade, or the 
X11BASE->LOCALBASE conversion. I've also tried firefox 2.0rc2 
(www/firefox-devel), same crappy fonts. (all other gnome apps have 
absolutely no font problems).
- gnome_prefix.sh doesn't work. I've tried it numerous times and it 
failed to update my ~/.gconf paths and many other gnome configuration 
files which were set to use X11BASE (yes, I did use the '-f' parameter). 
I ended up having to the update dozens of configuration files with sed.
- Every single icon in mail/evolution is unavailable (including toolbar 
icons, preference dialog icons and interface icons). No error is printed 
during startup, it simply replaces all those icons with a red cross.

I could probably report other errors, but I've only stumbled across 
specific gnome applications errors since I'm using xfce4 as my desktop 
environment (instead of gnome-panel/metacity).

--
Rainer Alves