Dear Mike,
I think its great that you're interested in getting more modern versions of the gnome packages working on 10.2. Most of the fink developers are now working on 10.3 or beyond, but I'm hoping you'll get some help from the readers of this list in your quest.
Yours, Dave
On Feb 16, 2005, at 5:20 PM, Michael wrote:
OK, this is my first time posting here, I think, so forgive me if I brreak some rule about posting, I am completely new at this. I have been trying to get ahold of the maintainer of the glib2 atk1 pango1-xft2 and gtk+2 packages the gnome-core person. Yesterday I learned this was a guy named Keith, but I never heard anything back. I read on this list that among others, the gtk+2 packages were really old. looking at the source numbers for myself, 2.2 avail on fink I think and 2.6.2 avail on the gtk ftp site, having heard nothing from this person, I took it upon myself and checked out the experimental tree and built some packages for myself, using glib-2.6.2 atk-1.9.0 and gtk+-2.6.2 sources, using the old ones as templates.(Kept Pango1-XFT2 as was) I have somewhat of an idea what I am doing so any input would be welcomed. I posted to Fink-Users last night and got a reply that I should post here for this matter instead. When building pango1-xft2 I had to manually build freetype-2.1.9, render, xrender, and fontconfig-2.2.99 and install them into usr/X11R6. I read that this is because the version of fontconfig distributed with the 4.4.0 sources of XFree86 are so old, that it would cause a problem. And indeed it did. For after I made those manual adjustments, plus building and installing expat-1.95.8 to /usr/X11R6 prefix it went off without a hitch. Now It was also told me by that list that that type of "manual hacking" is against Fink's policy. So is it ok with Fink's policies if I create packages for render xrender and fontconfig to be installed in /usr/X11R6 instead of fink's directory? (/sw for me) Normally I would think it was, but I know that Fink's XFree86 is installed into that directory, the only reason I don't use that is because I already had XDarwin on the 4.4.0 sources Downloaded, and on my slow machine compiling XFree takes like almost 4 hours I think, (awhile anyway). To sum it all up though, I am working on the 10.2-gcc3.3 unstable tree with OS X 10.2.8, if that helps, and the other packages seem to build fine, except I think there is one bug I am still trying to work out, and I am still learning the ConfigParams, so I know I have something wrong because I get gcc errors with unrecognized options `-pthread' and `-03' (glib2 I believe).
Another thing I was wondering is if I would just make a fontconfig package for the normal installation of fink's directory, since there is a Freetype2 package also for fink. But if that were the case would I also have to update fink's Freetype2 package to build the 2.1.9 sources, instead of the 2.1.3?
Again if this is the wrong board I apologize.
Mike S
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