Gnome2 build question

[Adam Weinberger]

>> (02.16.2004 @ 2207 PST): Vladimir Belyashki said, in 1.4K: <<
> Greetings and thanks for the great job you're doing!
> 
> I have a simple question regarding a Gnome2 build.
> Is it possible at all to build Gnome2 on a fresh
> install of FreeBSD CURRENT? After deprecating the 
> accessibility category in the ports tree many 
> components ot the Gnome2 desktop environment fail 
> to build complaining about missing atk, gail and 
> at-spi. The only workaround I've found so far is 
> using parts of the ports collection coming with FreeBSD 
> 5.2-RELEASE, where the mentioned above ports are 
> still present. But then they show as orphaned packets 
> in the installed software list. I've searched at 
> http://www.freshports.org/ for any solution or more 
> info but the only thing I found there was deletion 
> confirmations. Can you please suggest any way out 
> of this situation? This is not the first time I mail 
> a maintainer about port issues and all of you have 
> always been very helpful and responsive. Couple of 
> times those issues were well known so I was wondering 
> is there a FreeBSD ports mailinglist I should subscribe 
> to and save us false alerts in the future? Many thanks 
> again and keep up the superb work :).
>> end of "Gnome2 build question" from Vladimir Belyashki <<

Hi Vladimir!

Please take a look at http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html and
see if that doesn't help steer you in the right direction.

# Adam


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