gconf for firefox-x11 build problem

[Joshua MacFie]

On Jul 10, 2007, at 4:04 PM, Chris Pickel wrote:

> On 10 Jul, 2007, at 16:54, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> On Jul 9, 2007, at 14:47, Joshua MacFie wrote:
>>> joshuamacfie$ ls -l /opt/local/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.dylib
>>> lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  admin  0 Jul  9 04:20 /opt/local/lib/libgtk- 
>>> x11-2.0.dylib ->
>>>
>>> Does this mean it pints to itself?
>>
>> No, if it pointed to itself it would say "/opt/local/lib/libgtk- 
>> x11-2.0.dylib -> libgtk-x11-2.0.dylib"
>>
>> Are you sure there's nothing after the -> ? Nothing continued on  
>> the second line for example? I've never seen a symlink that  
>> pointed to nothing. I don't even know how to create such a thing.
>>
>>> and the second
>>>
>>> joshuamacfie$ port provides /opt/local/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.dylib
>>> /opt/local/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.dylib is a directory.
>>>
>>> Does not give me a port name just says its a directory.
>>
>> That's peculiar.
>
> Courtesy of my system:
>
> [sauvagine%] ls -l /opt/local/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.dylib
> lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  admin  30 Jul  5 13:16 /opt/local/lib/libgtk- 
> x11-2.0.dylib@ -> libgtk-x11-2.0.0.1000.13.dylib
> [sauvagine%] port provides /opt/local/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.dylib
> /opt/local/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.dylib is provided by: gtk2
>
>
> A symbolic link could be created to whitespace, although the fact  
> that the file is reported as having 0 size would indicate to me  
> that the file really is pointing to an empty string.
>
>
> Chris
Thats an actual copy and paste from my term window. I have no Idea  
why or how this happened. I just reinstalled macports and have tried  
updating so I know its fresh. I have only installed fluxbox so far.

Josh