Building Gnome-Metaport

Randall Wood rhwood at mac.com
Mon Mar 19 09:15:38 PDT 2007


Since I am trying to as rapidly as possible push out GNOME 2.18.0, it could be possible, but only if you are re-syncing your ports tree during the build process.

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Randall Wood
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On Monday, March 19, 2007, at 07:35AM, <petr.snyder at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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>Over the past four week I built the gnome-metaport (then still everything with version 2.16.x, no 2.18 stuff) twice. All but two of those 160+x packages built well: "gdm" and "metacity" (2 out of 160 is great, I think, congratulations!).
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>Just in the second run metacity suddenly didn't build without some fix in its configure-script (the configure-script was complaining about not finding a certain version of pango, which wasn't really missing ...).
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>Now I've got this question:
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>Is it possible that some of those weird dependencies problems are caused by updates on the servers which are made *while* "port install gnome" still is busy (it will be busy at least for 12-15 hs on my powerbook)?
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>Best Regards,
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>Peter
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