This release notes detailing all of the new goodies in GNOME 2.8 can
be found at http://www.gnome.org/start/2.8/notes/, and the list of what
was fixed in GNOME 2.8.1 can be found at
http://lists.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2004-October/msg00056.html.
This release, as well as all of our others, would not have been possible
without the great efforts of our FreeBSD GNOME Team. The list of
current members can be found at http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/contact.html
(including our newest member, Michael Johnson <ahze@FreeBSD.org>).
Special thanks also goes out to all of the loyal FreeBSD GNOME users that
put up with crashes and hangs to test and debug GNOME on FreeBSD. We would
especially like to thank those users that provided patches for GNOME 2.7 and
2.8:
Franz Klammer <klammer@webonaut.com>
Piotr Smyrak <piotr.smyrak@heron.pl>
Radek Kozlowski <radek@raadradd.com>
Khairil Yusof <kaeru@pd.jaring.my>
Yasuda Keisuke <kysd@po.harenet.ne.jp>
Tom McLaughlin <tmclaugh@sdf.lonestar.org>
Vladimir Grebenschikov <vova@fbsd.ru>
GNOME 2.8 also features a new, FreeBSD-specific splashscreen that
was designed by jimmac for GNOME 2.8, then daemonized by
Franz Klammer <klammer@webonaut.com> and Radek Kozlowski
<radek@raadradd.com>.
As with GNOME 2.6, you cannot just "portupgrade" to GNOME 2.8. There is
a script provided at http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/gnome_upgrade28.sh
that will aid in the upgrade process. Full documentation on the GNOME 2.8
upgrade is coming following this commit.
From all of us at FreeBSD GNOME, ENJOY!
this patch, for instance:
$ cd /usr/port/devel/apache-ant
$ make JAVA_HOME=toto
apache-ant-1.6.2: Environement error: "JAVA_HOME" should not be defined.
*** Error code 1
PR: 70914
Reported by: Rong-En Fan <rafan@infor.org>
Approved by: glewis (co-maintainer)
beyond. This avoids linking shared libraries with the thread library,
which causes problems when trying to change from one thread library to
another. Instead all binaries that link to a library that uses
threads must themselves respect PTHREAD_LIBS.
Submitted by: deischen, marcus
Approved by: portmgr
build ports with older USE_GCC versions (useful in certain cases for
working around compile errors with newer gcc versions) [1] [2] [3] [4]
(based on)
* Only spit out the TRYBROKEN message when a BROKEN string is defined
PR: ports/70322 [1], ports/71344 [2], ports/64316 [3]
Submitted by: obrien [1], Xin LI <delphij@frontfree.net> [2],
trevor [3], jkoshy [4], et. al.
Approved by: portmgr
building the port but not added to BUILD_DEPENDS)
- Use ${VAR:U} to test YES/NO values a more simple way
- Refactor: Jikes now has its own sub-stages (error-handling and support)
together in Stage 6
- New variable to be used by porters (and used internally by bsd.java.mk),
HAVE_JIKES
Approved by: glewis (mentor)
performing all of the recent changes.
. Add to the header comment to document JAVASHAREDIR, JAVAJARDIR and
JAVALIBDIR.
. Add a definition for JAVALIBDIR. This is where other ports have
installed their JAR files (a port should install in JAVAJARDIR but
look for other JARs in JAVALIBDIR).
problems with the new make(1) .MAKEFLAGS handling. To disable
__softMAKEFLAGS caching, set NOPRECIOUSSOFTMAKEVARS (note: this is done
by default if the new make(1) is being used). To disable .MAKEFLAGS
caching, set NOPRECIOUSMAKEVARS (same as before).
PR: standards/57295
Submitted by: harti
Tested on: pointyhat
Java-based port with ant, using MAKE_ENV, MAKE_ARGS and ALL_TARGET but
using ant instead of make. When a port is built this way it also
causes ant to respect the JDK selected by bsd.java.mk rather than
using the JDK that ant was build with.
Most ports should just be able to do
USE_ANT= yes
You may also need to set ALL_TARGET if your port doesn't use the
default ant target.
See the comments on USE_ANT at the head of bsd.java.mk for more
information.
PR: 59997
Reviewed by: hq (who spotted a bug and provided the comments
documenting USE_ANT).
and make XFREE86_VERSION map to it. XFREE86_VERSION is now deprecated.
- Make xorg the default X_WINDOW_SYSTEM on -current.
- Add several new X_*_PORT variables which point to various pieces of X11 based
on the setting of X_WINDOW_SYSTEM, and make ports use them.
- Add information to CHANGES about how to handle the transition.
PR: ports/68763
Approved by: portmgr (marcus)
Approved by: re (scottl)
pre-install target to explicitly create
${PREFIX}/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/.
A number of ports don't create this directory automatically.
In normal uses, this doesn't cause a problem, but many of us
prefer to test out plists by installing into custom prefixes.
This prevents those custom prefix installation tests from
failing.
Inspired by: John Merryweather Cooper <coop9211@uidaho.edu>
