Recent GNOME ports breakage

[Landon Fuller]

On Feb 3, 2007, at 8:00 AM, Randall Wood wrote:

> ALCON:
>
> Recently a number of ports required for GNOME programs were broken  
> for PowerPC (G3/4/5) platforms (for about half these ports, this  
> break was from fixing problems on the Intel platform). I am  
> attempting to track down working fixes for these ports and hope to  
> have everything fixed by 10 Feb 07.
>
> We apologize for these problems.
>
> If anyone has suggestions about how to avoid this situation in the  
> future, other than requiring that maintainers (who are all  
> volunteers) test their ports on both PowerPC and Intel platforms (a  
> requirement that most of us can't afford to meet for both time and  
> money reasons), please feel free to chime in with a suggestion.

Did you rebuild all of the affected components? Nearly all of the  
changes added explicit dependencies on MacPorts-provided libraries,  
to prevent the symbol duplication that required compiler flags that  
broke Intel builds.
It's possible that with remaining libraries hauling in duplicate  
symbols on your system, the new compiler flags broke in new and  
interesting ways.

-landonf
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