getting ANY Linux ports to work

[Chuck Robey]

[ Sent this originally to "freebsd-emulation", but I didn't even get an echo of 
it, and finally found a reference to the missing symbol in a mail on the 
FreeBSD-gnome list 
(http://www.mavetju.org/mail/view_message.php?list=freebsd-gnome&id=2314249) 
(Joe Marcus Clarke).  The mail was from way back, but my port is very up to 
date, so I'm resending this to FreeBSD-gnome.  I just want to get my 
FreeBSD-linux (any version--I want linux-firefox, ultimately flash) working)]

I have a problem ... 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 linux-firefox, I found out 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.