gcvs error when doing make

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Wed, 09 May 2007 10:31:00 -0500, <yves.guerin at muhc.mcgill.ca> wrote:

>
> Dear Maintainer
>
>
> I got the following error when trying to compile gcvs on my FreeBSD
> machine:
>
> uname -a
> FreeBSD beastie.muhc.mcgill.ca 6.0-SECURITY FreeBSD 6.0-SECURITY #0: Tue
> Apr 18 08:56:09 UTC 2006
> root at builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
>
> checking for gtk-config... /usr/local/bin/gtk12-config
> checking for GTK - version >= 1.2.0... ./configure.lineno:
> /usr/local/bin/gtk12-config: not found
> ./configure.lineno: /usr/local/bin/gtk12-config: not found
> ./configure.lineno: /usr/local/bin/gtk12-config: not found
> ./configure.lineno: /usr/local/bin/gtk12-config: not found
> ./configure.lineno: /usr/local/bin/gtk12-config: not found
> no
> *** Could not run GTK test program, checking why...
> *** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log  
> for
> the
> *** exact error that occured. This usually means GTK was incorrectly
> installed
> *** or that you have moved GTK since it was installed. In the latter  
> case,
> you
> *** may want to edit the gtk-config script: /usr/local/bin/gtk12-config
> configure: error: Cannot find GTK: Is gtk-config in path?
> ===>  Script "make_configure" failed unexpectedly.
> Please report the problem to ports at FreeBSD.org [maintainer] and attach  
> the
> "/opt/ports/devel/gcvs/work/gcvs-1.0/config.log" including the output of
> the
> failure of your make command. Also, it might be a good idea to provide an
> overview of all packages installed on your system (e.g. an `ls
> /var/db/pkg`).
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /opt/ports/devel/gcvs.
>
> So I did the following and it works

A correct solution is to follow in /usr/ports/UPDATING (20061014). But...  
I suggest you best to wait until xorg 7.x merges into the ports tree soon  
that will be required to rebuild a lot of apps just like in  
/usr/ports/UPDATING (20061014).

Cheers,
Mezz

> ==========================================================
> [root at beastie bin]$ pwd
> /usr/local/bin
> [root at beastie bin]$whereis gtk12-config
> gtk12-config: /usr/X11R6/bin/gtk12-config
> [root at beastie bin]$ ln -s /usr/X11R6/bin/gtk12-config gtk12-config
> ==========================================================
>
> Regards,
>
> Yves


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