Gnome-Applets installation problem

[Christopher Riker]

On Apr 13, 2007, at 4:12 PM, Christopher Riker wrote:

> Hi-
>
> I'm pretty new to MacPorts, X11 and linux in general, so please  
> bear with me!
>
> I've been trying to get GNOME to install, and have run into  
> problems with Gnome-Applets. I remember seeing a post in this list  
> archives back on April 1 (two long weeks ago) with the same error  
> that I am encountering. The responses seemed to indicate that the  
> error would be fixed within 24 hours, due to an upgrade from Gnome  
> 2.16 to 2.18. I've been using PortAuthority under OSX and have  
> since run an update on MacPorts 1.4 (none needed) and ran an "add  
> port descriptions" as well. Some components for Gnome are showing  
> 2.16.2 while others are showing 2.18.0, Gnome-Applets is reporting  
> 2.16.2
>
> I'm doing this on a new install of MacPorts, started in late march.  
> I haven't installed anything other than the attempt to get Gnome  
> installed (I'm holding off until I have Gnome installed before  
> adding some of the other items in which I am interested.)
>
> I've have tried a clean and reinstall of Gnome-Applets with no luck.
>
> Today's error message is the same I have been receiving these past  
> weeks:
>
>> --->  Building gnome-applets with target all
>> make  all-recursive
>> Making all in po
>> make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
>> Making all in charpick
>> Making all in help
>> make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
>> make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
>> Making all in geyes
>> Making all in themes
>> make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
>> Making all in docs
>> xsltproc -o geyes-es.omf --stringparam db2omf.basename geyes -- 
>> stringparam db2omf.format 'docbook' --stringparam db2omf.dtd "-// 
>> OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN" --stringparam db2omf.lang es -- 
>> stringparam db2omf.omf_dir "/opt/local/share/omf" --stringparam  
>> db2omf.help_dir "/opt/local/share/gnome/help" --stringparam  
>> db2omf.omf_in "`pwd`/./geyes.omf.in" `/opt/local/bin/pkg-config -- 
>> variable db2omf gnome-doc-utils` es/geyes.xml
>> db2omf: Could not construct the OMF maintainer element.
>>   Add an author, corpauthor, editor, othercredit, or publisher
>>   element with the role attribute set to "maintainer" to geyes.xml.
>> make[3]: *** [geyes-es.omf] Error 10
>> make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>> make: *** [all] Error 2
>> Warning: the following items did not execute (for gnome-applets):  
>> com.apple.activate com.apple.build com.apple.destroot  
>> com.apple.install
>
>
> It looks to me that the problem is about 5 lines up, and with the  
> OMF maintainer element which seems to be set in a geyes.xml  
> (document?). I have looked for filenames with geyes in them and  
> have not discovered any in the /opt directory.
>
> Any advice would be most appreciated!
>
> - Chris
>
>
>



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