Gnome troubles on FreeBSD (was: FreeBSD trials and tribulations...)

[Devin Butterfield <dbutter ix netcom com>]

Hey Josh (and everyone else),

That's great that you were able to get the latest gnome running on
FreeBSD! You may remember me...I had posted a message regarding this
very thing (my specific problem was with some of the compilations
failing due to an undefined reference to 'gettext').

Fortunately, after many hours (and your help),I was able to get
everything compiled and installed successfully...or so I thought! When I
went to start gnome, it came up with no icons, and complained that it
could not load its default icon set. I checked the output on the console
and found many messages saying:

"gdk_imlib ERROR: Cannot load image:
/usr/local/share/pixmaps/panal-arrow-left.png
All fallbacks failed."

with each of the many messages referring to a different png image file
that it could not load.

I posted a message to the mailing list and got some tips and suggestions
(one of which suggested that gmodule was not working and that I needed
to remove (or comment out) the reference to gmodule in the imlib
config.h file and then re-compile imlib, but after making the mod, imlib
would NOT compile. Anyway, to make a long story short...I would love to
get gnome working on my FreeBSD box but I am stuck at this point.

BTW, I'm running FreeBSD 3.1 release.

Did you run across this problem, and or have any ideas of why it may be
occurring?

I would be very grateful if you could share your experience of getting
gnome compiled and running, and perhaps shed some light on this image
loading problem.

Any help would be great. TIA!
--
Devin.


Josh Emmons (skia) wrote:
> 
> Well, I've compleated compiling the bleeding edge gnome on FreeBSD and boy
> are my arms tired!
> 
> Most of the early libs and such were cake to install -- but about the time
> I get to gnome-libs and gnome-core everything started to break down.
> 
> orbit-config wasn't defined in any of the makefiles that it should have
> been, a bunch of liborbit and libgnorba directories needed to be filled in
> by hand.  The same with libzvt.
> 
> Now that I've got it all straightened out, I wanted to ask why these
> things weren't foudn and set up by configure.  I had installed all the
> past packages with the prefix /opt/gnome or /opt/gtk, would that make it
> hard for configure to do it's job?  Are there command line options that I
> could have passed to configure to help it out?
> 
> I'd like to wrap up this release into the FreeBSD ports collection, so any
> help you can give would be appreciated!
> 
>   Josh Emmons...j-emmons@sjca.edu
> 
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