Note: enabling this will add a conflict to mDNSResponder which may interfere
with KDE applications.
PR: 98566
Submitted by: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> (with modifications)
http://www.gnome.org/start/2.14/ for the official release notes, and a list
of all the gooides in this new release. In particular, GNOME 2.14 focused
on performance, and they did not miss the mark. There's some new eye candy,
but most of the big things are waiting until GNOME 2.16. On the FreeBSD
side, we tried to clean up all the crashers we could. In particular, we
really improved GNOME's 64-bit support.
The good news is that this release does not bring any big shared library
version bumps, so you can almost do a simple portupgrade to get to 2.14.
There are a few minor gotchas that will be documented in UPDATING shortly.
The FreeBSD GNOME Team would like th thank the following users for their
patches, feedback, and sometimes incessant complaing about crashes (you
know who you are).
Yasuda Keisuke <kysd@po.harenet.ne.jp>
Pascal Hofstee <caelian@gmail.com>
rmgls@wanadoo.fr
tmclaugh
Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov@gmail.com>
sajd on #freebsd-gnome
ade
ankon on #FreeBSD-Gnome
mux
Pascal Hofstee <caelian@gmail.com>
QuiRK on #freebsd-gnome
Vladimir Timofeev <vovkasm@gmail.com>
and ${PTHREAD_LIBS}, avahi linked its binaries with -lc_r on FreeBSD. This
caused nasty runtime failures on i386, and build failures on alpha, amd64,
and other platforms where libc_r no longer exists.
To fix this, don't go through the song and dance of trying to solve the
-shared/${PTHREAD_LIBS} problem, and just link with ${PTHREAD_LIBS} as
usual. Of course, ports that depend on avahi's libraries will break by
doing this, so add ${PTHREAD_{LIBS,CFLAGS}} to the right pkg-config files
to make sure dependencies will pick them up.
Patch adapted from: Yasuda Keisuke <kysd@po.harenet.ne.jp>
...but with a twist. Avahi is a D-BUS based mDNS solution from
Freedesktop.org.
Avahi provides Service discovery on a local network -- this means that you
can plug your laptop or computer into a network and instantly be able to view
other people who you can chat with, find printers to print to or find files
being shared. This kind of technology is already found in MacOS X
(branded 'Rendezvous', 'Bonjour' and sometimes 'ZeroConf') and is very
convenient.
WWW: http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/Avahi
A lot of the ground work for this port was provided by ahze.
