Re: Confuddled: How do I build gnome 2.22?

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

On Dec 27,  3:16am, Greg Troxel wrote:
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}   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... :-)
} 
} Some of the x libraries have messed up pkgsrc entries, or the libraries

     Yes and no.

} themselves are, but the result is that with X11_TYPE of native XFree86
} they won't work.  The workaround is to set X11_TYPE to modular, and

     The problem is that native XFree86 is getting old and it only
supplied a handful of pkg-config (.pc) files.  You can look in
/usr/X11R6/lib/pkgconfig to see the few that are supplied.  A number of
newer libraries / applications are demanding more pkg-config files then
what are supplied.  I'm working on fixing this.  The basic fix (to
which pkgsrc-pmc has agreed) is to create fake pkg-config files for
XFree86 libraries that don't supply them.

}-- End of excerpt from Greg Troxel