getting ANY Linux ports to work

[Boris Samorodov]

On Sun, 12 Sep 2010 15:51:32 -0400 Chuck Robey wrote:

> I have a problem ...

Please show an output of:
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$ uname -a
$ grep LINUX /etc/make.conf
$ echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
$ pkg_info -Ix linux
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> I don't neccessarily want it fixed, but if the
> general direction of a fix could be explained, I'm willing to do what
> I need to do to get past the error myself.

> When trying to install either the linus-firefox, I found oout about
> the way to get the ports to either f8 or f10, so that's not the
> problem here.  I began trying to install linux-firefox (using
> portmaster), and I set up to use -f10 at first.  The installation of
> the X11-toolkit stuff failed in doing the f10 pango, which kept giving
> the error:

> /compat/linux/usr/bin/pango-querymodules-32: symbol lookup error:
> /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_intern_static_string
> *** Error code 127

> I checked, in the FreeBSD pango lib, that's a defined symbol, but in
> the Linux libs, it's (while in the lib) an undefined symbol (it needs
> to link to some other lib).  I found a web post using Google, by Mel
> Flynn, which admitted the error and explained that there was no fix
> yet.  I tried to deinstall all of my f10 ports, and replace them with
> the f8 flavor, but then I get another error stating that "The
> component dbuslibs is not defined for LINUX_DIST_SUFFIX=-f8".

> So, I can't get either the -f10 nor the -f8 installed, and I don't
> understand enough Linuxism to figure out what "pango-querymodules" is
> going (or not doing). Is there any way to get a current Freebsd-Linux
> port working?

> I sure hope I'm using the correct list here.  I didn't want to
> cross-post, but couldn't find any freebsd-linux list, either.  Maybe
> I'll try freebsd-ports if I fail here.  Any hints, either on the
> problem or where to ask, gratefully received.

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