Problem with Gnome2 Installation

[Predrag Punosevac]

lawrence.petrykanyn at sympatico.ca wrote:
>
>   Hi,
>
>   I just installed FreeBSD6.2 onto my home computer.  I chose the
>   'minimum installation' option.  I then installed the ports tree by
>   'portsnap fetch', followed by 'portsnap extract', and then 'portsnap
>   fetch upgrade'.  Then I successfully installed Xorg via the ports
>   tree.  I then configured and tested X11.  So far, all went very well.
>
>   Next, I wanted to install the Gnome Desktop Environment, so 'cd
>   /usr/ports/x11/gnome2' followed by 'make install clean'.  The
>   installation went well for over two hours, and then it stopped with
>   the message that I have included from the script file below.
>
>   I have a few questions:
>   1.  How can I continue, and complete, the installation of Gnome?
>   2.  What, besides general Googling and checking the FreeBSD archives,
>   can I do when the installation generates an error message like the one
>   below that is merely descriptive and not prescriptive?  (I'd like to
>   not have to come running to this forum every time an installation
>   doesn't succeed.  I realize that a learning curve is involved, but I'm
>   willing to do a bit of research if I can find the right resources.  I
>   did look at /usr/ports/UPDATING but didn't find anything that looked
>   relevant.)
>   3.  In the past (5.4), I have used 'portupgrade' to maintain my ports
>   tree.  I understand that 'portsnap' is a new utility that is supposed
>   to be easier to use and more reliable.  So does this mean that I can
>   do all of my ports tree maintenance with 'portsnap' and never use
>   'portupgrade' again?
>
>   Any advice, suggestions, or comments would be appreciated!
>
>   Thank you,
>   Larry
>
>   Error Message **********
>                                          (Excerpt)
>   *
>   *
>   *
>   ===>   gnome-control-center-2.18.1_1 depends on shared library: xml2.5
>   - found
>   ===>   gnome-control-center-2.18.1_1 depends on shared library: xslt.2
>   - found
>   ===>   gnome-control-center-2.18.1_1 depends on shared library: linc.1
>   - found
>   ===>   gnome-control-center-2.18.1_1 depends on shared library:
>   metacity-private.0 - not found
>   ===>    Verifying install for metacity-private.0 in
>   /usr/ports/x11-wm/metacity
>   ===>  Building for metacity-2.18.5
>   gmake  all-recursive
>   gmake[1]: Entering directory
>   `/usr/ports/x11-wm/metacity/work/metacity-2.18.5'
>   Making all in src
>   gmake[2]: Entering directory
>   `/usr/ports/x11-wm/metacity/work/metacity-2.18.5/src'
>   gmake  all-recursive
>   gmake[3]: Entering directory
>   `/usr/ports/x11-wm/metacity/work/metacity-2.18.5/src'
>   Making all in wm-tester
>   gmake[4]: Entering directory
>   `/usr/ports/x11-wm/metacity/work/metacity-2.18.5/src/wm-tester'
>   gmake[4]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
>   gmake[4]: Leaving directory
>   `/usr/ports/x11-wm/metacity/work/metacity-2.18.5/src/wm-tester'
>   Making all in tools
>   gmake[4]: Entering directory
>   `/usr/ports/x11-wm/metacity/work/metacity-2.18.5/src/tools'
>   gmake[4]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
>   gmake[4]: Leaving directory
>   `/usr/ports/x11-wm/metacity/work/metacity-2.18.5/src/tools'
>   Making all in themes
>   gmake[4]: Entering directory
>   `/usr/ports/x11-wm/metacity/work/metacity-2.18.5/src/themes'
>   gmake[4]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
>   gmake[4]: Leaving directory
>   `/usr/ports/x11-wm/metacity/work/metacity-2.18.5/src/themes'
>   gmake[4]: Entering directory
>   `/usr/ports/x11-wm/metacity/work/metacity-2.18.5/src'
>   gmake[4]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
>   gmake[4]: Leaving directory
>   `/usr/ports/x11-wm/metacity/work/metacity-2.18.5/src'
>   gmake[3]: Leaving directory
>   `/usr/ports/x11-wm/metacity/work/metacity-2.18.5/src'
>   gmake[2]: Leaving directory
>   `/usr/ports/x11-wm/metacity/work/metacity-2.18.5/src'
>   Making all in po
>   gmake[2]: Entering directory
>   `/usr/ports/x11-wm/metacity/work/metacity-2.18.5/po'
>   file=`echo cs | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \
>      && rm -f $file && /usr/local/bin/msgfmt -o $file cs.po
>   cs.po:1160:72: invalid multibyte sequence
>   cs.po:1160: keyword "a" unknown
>   cs.po:1160:76: parse error
>   cs.po:1161: end-of-line within string
>   /usr/local/bin/msgfmt: found 4 fatal errors
>   gmake[2]: *** [cs.gmo] Error 1
>   gmake[2]: Leaving directory
>   `/usr/ports/x11-wm/metacity/work/metacity-2.18.5/po'
>   gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>   gmake[1]: Leaving directory
>   `/usr/ports/x11-wm/metacity/work/metacity-2.18.5'
>   gmake: *** [all] Error 2
>   *** Error code 2
>   Stop in /usr/ports/x11-wm/metacity.
>   *** Error code 1
>   Stop in /usr/ports/sysutils/gnome-control-center.
>   *** Error code 1
>   Stop in /usr/ports/x11/gnome-applets.
>   *** Error code 1
>   Stop in /usr/ports/x11/gnome2.
>   *** Error code 1
>   Stop in /usr/ports/x11/gnome2.
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Ok. 
Could you tell me if you installed 6.2 release (this is the official one 
) or 6.2 stable(you have to get this as a snap shot or rebuild the 
world)? Second question is if you installed 6.2 release then you 
probably have
XOrg 6.9 not XOrg 7.2. Just to be on the safe side check /var/db/pkg ?
I would guess that the failure has to do with the dependency issues 
related to XOrg 7.2.
Gnome 2.18 was not part of official 6.2 release and probably depends on 
XOrg 7.2.  I build 2.18 successfully from ports but I am running 6.2 
stable and XOrg 7.2. I also used make BATCH=yes install clean (I used 
batch mode to avoid answering questions about the packages
and creating dependency issues)
It took over 12 hours on Instel Core 2 Duo to compile whole meta port 
and another 5 hours for fifth-toe and gnome-office.
My knowledge is very limited so I could not tell you anything more about 
failure of your compiler or answer the rest of your questionts.

According to FreeBSD Gnome http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/ the failure of 
compiler is not uncommon. Maybe you should post
your question on there mailing list.

All the best
Predrag