Ryan Schmidt wrote:
Could the reinplace command be used in the portfile to automate these changes?
I don't know; I'm new to MacPorts.
Also, shouldn't we update to liboil 0.3.10? Unless someone knows a reason we should not.
I hope you'll forgive the newbie to the list coming into your sandbox and telling you there are problems, but I think "getting GNOME to compile on Mactel" is a much bigger priority item than "getting liboil to 0.3.10". I came to MacPorts just a few days ago and here's the list of obstacles I've run into: * Bug tracking is fundamentally broken. Even though I've registered, I can't log in to file bug reports. Or, for that matter, even browse them. * evolution-data-server refuses to build without manual Makefile tweaking. * liboil won't compile unless you know enough about GNU assembler and its history to recognize that liboil is using stuff not supported on Apple's antiquated gas. * gnome-applets won't even build, and I still can't figure out why. Something to do with libxklavier. Which is installed and in the proper place, but gswitchit_config.c in gnome-applets is expecting a libxklavier header file which the libxklavier package doesn't provide. * All of my problems have been reported on this list before, but I have not been able to find solutions on this list. Speaking as a newcomer to MacPorts, the experience has been very disheartening. Some individuals have been very helpful (Daniel Ericsson, for instance, gave me great help with the evolution-data-server problem). But by and large, the experience has been unpleasant and discouraging. I'm using MacPorts to get GNOME installed on my system, and it seems there's nothing but obstacles.