Re: Confuddled: How do I build gnome 2.22?

[jnemeth%victoria.tc.ca@localhost (John Nemeth)]

On Nov 22, 12:23am, Anders Lindgren wrote:
} 
} After joyfully getting 4.99.72 with wapbl-logging (yay!) and all onto my 
} eeepc900, I thought I'd set up an old workhorse -- an old dual PIII -- to 
} build pkgsrc packages for it and try out gnome 2.22 before [more or less] 
} reinstalling all the packages on my main desktop. So I grabbed 
} pkgsrc-2008Q2 and went about it..
} 
} I found meta-pkgs/gnome-platform is the package for getting the 2.22 core 
} libraries. The rest of the gnome desktop still seem to be lumped together 
} in the meta-pkgs/gnome package for gnome 2.18.1. It depends on gnome-base, 
} which appears to be some minimal set of gnome 2.18.1, and to a large 
} extent overlaps with what is now in gnome-platform for 2.22 -- so I 
} figured if I build gnome-platform first (to get the 2.22 core libraries) 
} and then gnome to get the rest, gnome-platform would satisfy (thanks to 
} ">=...") most of the dependencies in gnome-base, and it should Just 
} Work(tm). So much for trying to reason... :-)

     Most of the stuff installed by gnome and gnome-base should be the
2.22 versions.  All these two packages do is install other packages.
Don't worry about the version numbers on them.  It doesn't have
anything to do with the versions of the things they install.  You don't
need to use gnome-platform.  All of the stuff it brings in will be
brought in by the others.


} While gnome -> gnome-base is building wm/metacity, I now get:
} 
} ---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<---
} 
} checking for METACITY... configure: error: Package requirements (gtk+-2.0 
} >= 2.10.0 pango >= 1.2.0 gconf-2.0 >= 1.2.0 libstartup-notification-1.0 >= 
} 0.7 xcomposite >= 0.2 xfixes xrender xdamage xcursor) were not met:
} 
} No package 'xdamage' found
} 
} Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
} installed software in a non-standard prefix.
} 
} Alternatively, you may set the environment variables METACITY_CFLAGS
} and METACITY_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
} See the pkg-config man page for more details.
} 
} *** Error code 1
} 
} Stop.
} make: stopped in /usr/pkgsrc/wm/metacity
} WARNING: *** Please consider adding c++ to USE_LANGUAGES in the package 
} Makefile.
} WARNING: *** Please consider adding fortran to USE_LANGUAGES in the 
} package Makefile.
} *** Error code 1
} 
} Stop.
} make: stopped in /usr/pkgsrc/wm/metacity
} 
} ---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<---
} 
} I don't know if this error has anything at all to do with 
} meta-pkgs/gnome-platform, but I figured someone here must have tested 

     No, not really.

} building a gnome desktop. What am I doing wrong here? Should I install 

     You're not doing anything wrong.  This is a known problem.  I am
working on fixing it.  You can either wait until the fixes are in, or
switch to modular-xorg.

}-- End of excerpt from Anders Lindgren