Gnome ports messed up (dependency loops)

[Christopher Arnold]

On Fri, 4 Apr 2008, Jeremy Messenger wrote:

> On Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:40:55 -0500, Christopher Arnold <chris at arnold.se> 
> wrote:
>> On Fri, 4 Apr 2008, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
>> 
>>> On Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:24:12 -0500, Christopher Arnold <chris at arnold.se> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Fri, 4 Apr 2008, Denise H. G. wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Christopher Arnold <chris at arnold.se> writes:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> So it got me further, but i still have issues with compoiling gnome2,
>>>>>> gnome2-power-tools and evince.
>>>>>> I belive evince is the showstopper here with:
>>>>>> checking for gsapi_new_instance in -lgs... no
>>>>>> configure: error: You need libgs in order to compile libspectre
>>>>>>  Am i the only one? Or is everyone else also waiting for a final update
>>>>>> taking care of this?
>>>>> I don't have problems compiling libspectre or evince. Have you updated
>>>>> your ports tree to the latest? My box is 7-STABLE/amd64.
>>>>> 
>>>> Yes it is libspectre haveing a hard time to compile, evince and gnome 
>>>> depend on it.
>>>> Yes a completly fresh ports from today and im running on 6.3-STABLE from 
>>>> March the 16'th.
>>> 
>>> Show us the output of 'pkg_info -IX ghostscript'.
>>> 
>> ghostscript-gnu-7.07_17 GNU Postscript interpreter
>
> It explains... ahze only has change in ghostscript-gpl to enable with library 
> by default. Is there any reason why you don't use ghostscript-gpl instead 
> (/usr/ports/UPDATING at 20070405)? If you want to keep ghostscript-gnu, try 
> to reinstall it with WITH_SHLIB. I personal don't know if libspectre will 
> work with ghostscript-gnu.
>
Following the 20070405 entry in UPDATING solved the issue for me.


 	/Chris

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