Using the order of compilation of files given on the Installing GNOME 2.20 page at www.gnome.org, I installed individually each componet of the GNOME system using: sudo port -dfun upgrade foo (or install in a few cases) Im pleased to say that everything except 4 programs complied. The exceptions were: poppler: creating libpoppler-qt4.la (cd .libs && rm -f libpoppler-qt4.la && ln -s ../libpoppler-qt4.la libpoppler-qt4.la) Making all in tests if g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../../poppler -I../.. -I../../ poppler -I../../qt4/src -I../../qt -I/opt/local/include -DQT_SHARED - I/opt/local/include/qt4 -I/opt/local/include/qt4/QtCore -I/opt/local/ include/qt4/QtGui -I/opt/local/include/qt4/QtXml -I/opt/local/ include -Wall -Wno-unused -O2 -MT test-poppler-qt4.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/test-poppler-qt4.Tpo" -c -o test-poppler-qt4.o test-poppler- qt4.cpp; \ then mv -f ".deps/test-poppler-qt4.Tpo" ".deps/test-poppler-qt4.Po"; else rm -f ".deps/test-poppler-qt4.Tpo"; exit 1; fi /bin/sh ../../libtool --tag=CXX --mode=link g++ -Wall -Wno-unused - O2 -L/opt/local/lib -o test-poppler-qt4 test-poppler-qt4.o ../../ poppler/libpoppler.la ../../qt4/src/libpoppler-qt4.la -L/opt/local/lib -lfontconfig -lexpat -framework ApplicationServices -framework Carbon -framework AppKit -L/opt/local/lib -L/opt/local/var/macports/ build/ _opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync .macports.org_release_ports_aqua_qt4-mac/work/qt-mac-opensource- src-4.3.2/lib -lQtGui -lpng -lQtXml -lQtTest -lQtCore -lz -lm - liconv -lz mkdir .libs libtool: link: cannot find the library `' or unhandled argument `Carbon' make[3]: *** [test-poppler-qt4] Error 1 make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make: *** [all] Error 2 Warning: the following items did not execute (for poppler): org.macports.activate org.macports.build org.macports.destroot org.macports.install Error: Status 1 encountered during processing. liboobs: checking for pkg-config... /opt/local/bin/pkg-config checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes checking for OOBS... yes checking for crypt in -lcrypt... no configure: error: crypt library is required. Warning: the following items did not execute (for liboobs): org.macports.activate org.macports.configure org.macports.build org.macports.destroot org.macports.install Error: Status 1 encountered during processing. firefox-x11: gmake[5]: Entering directory `/opt/local/var/macports/build/ _opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync .macports.org_release_ports_www_firefox-x11/work/mozilla/nsprpub/pr/ src/linking' gcc -o prlink.o -c -I/opt/local/include -O2 -pipe -Wmost -fno- common -no-cpp-precomp -pthread -O2 -fPIC -UDEBUG -DMOZILLA_CLIENT=1 -DNDEBUG=1 -DHAVE_VISIBILITY_HIDDEN_ATTRIBUTE=1 -DXP_UNIX=1 -DDARWIN=1 -DHAVE_BSD_FLOCK=1 -Di386=1 -DXP_MACOSX=1 -DHAVE_LCHOWN=1 - DHAVE_STRERROR=1 -DFORCE_PR_LOG -D_PR_PTHREADS - UHAVE_CVAR_BUILT_ON_SEM -D_NSPR_BUILD_ -I/opt/local/var/macports/build/ _opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync .macports.org_release_ports_www_firefox-x11/work/mozilla/dist/include/ nspr -I../../../pr/include -I../../../pr/include/private -I/Developer/ Headers/FlatCarbon prlink.c In file included from /System/Library/Frameworks/ CoreFoundation.framework/Headers/CoreFoundation.h:21, from /System/Library/Frameworks/ CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/CarbonCore.framework/Headers/ CarbonCore.h:20, from /System/Library/Frameworks/ CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/AE.framework/Headers/AE.h:20, from /System/Library/Frameworks/ CoreServices.framework/Headers/CoreServices.h:21, from /Developer/Headers/FlatCarbon/CodeFragments.h:1, from prlink.c:48: /usr/include/signal.h:84: error: syntax error before numeric constant prlink.c: In function 'pr_LoadViaCFM': prlink.c:701: warning: 'ResolveAliasFile' is deprecated (declared at / System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/ CarbonCore.framework/Headers/Aliases.h:1035) prlink.c: In function 'pr_FindSymbolInLib': prlink.c:1400: warning: 'c2pstrcpy' is deprecated (declared at /System/ Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/ CarbonCore.framework/Headers/TextUtils.h:578) prlink.c: In function 'PR_GetLibraryFilePathname': prlink.c:1629: warning: assignment discards qualifiers from pointer target type gmake[5]: *** [prlink.o] Error 1 gmake[5]: Leaving directory `/opt/local/var/macports/build/ _opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync .macports.org_release_ports_www_firefox-x11/work/mozilla/nsprpub/pr/ src/linking' gmake[4]: *** [export] Error 2 gmake[4]: Leaving directory `/opt/local/var/macports/build/ _opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync .macports.org_release_ports_www_firefox-x11/work/mozilla/nsprpub/pr/src' gmake[3]: *** [export] Error 2 gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/opt/local/var/macports/build/ _opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync .macports.org_release_ports_www_firefox-x11/work/mozilla/nsprpub/pr' gmake[2]: *** [export] Error 2 devhelp: would not compile -- mozilla lacking mozilla: would not complie -- many many "depreciated" errors (note: errors not warnings) and it doesnt appear to me that Leopard had anything to do with these errors. I hope this is of some interest as it took a *very* long time....... :) William Davis frstanATbellsouthDOTnet Mac OS X.5.0 Darwin 9.0.0 Mac Mini Intel Duo @ 1.86 GHz Mundus vult decepi, ego non