problem making gnome-applets

[Lowell Gilbert]

Blah Blatz <blahblatz at yahoo.com> writes:

> I'm trying to make /usr/ports/x11/gnome2, and it's failing in /usr/ports/x11/gnome-applets.  More specifically, in charpick/help, when it's trying to do an xml2po on char-palette.xml.  Here's the interesting part of the output:
>
> gmake[3]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/x11/gnome-applets/work/gnome-applets-2.18.0/charpick/help'
> if ! test -d bg/; then mkdir bg/; fi
> case "." in /*) sd=".";; *) sd="../.";;    esac; \
>     if [ -f "C/char-palette.xml" ]; then d="../"; else d="$sd/"; fi; \
>     (cd bg/ && \
>       `which xml2po` -e -p \
>         "${d}bg/bg.po" \
>         "${d}C/char-palette.xml" > char-palette.xml.tmp && \
>         cp char-palette.xml.tmp char-palette.xml && rm -f char-palette.xml.tmp)
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> gmake[3]: *** [bg/char-palette.xml] Error 139
>
> There's a python core file in there, so I'm guessing that python is the thing that actually exploded.
>
> Anybody have any suggestions?


You can always install from packages...

First guesses would be that either your python installation or your
memory is corrupt.  Also, make sure that you clean the directory
before trying to build the port (gnome-applets, in particular) again.

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Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
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