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From: Richard Reich <rreich@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Error compiling sawfish-20020611.ebuild
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 13:35:23
Message-Id: 1024338850.24859.16.camel@orcana
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Error compiling sawfish-20020611.ebuild by Spider
1 My apologies for not being a responsible netzin and doing a quick search
2 in the mailing list.
3
4 Thanks for the heads up though
5 Richard Reich
6
7 On Mon, 2002-06-17 at 14:16, Spider wrote:
8 > begin quote
9 > On 17 Jun 2002 13:04:47 -0400
10 > Richard Reich <rreich@×××××××.com> wrote:
11 >
12 > > Here is the error, is there anything I can do to fix this?
13 > >
14 > > Thanks
15 > > Richard Reich
16 >
17 > 1) Read ChangeLog. Its been a documented fact that Sawfish snapshots
18 > are broken and fail to compile for quite some time now.
19 > 2) http://bugs.gentoo.org/ Has at least two exactly the same entries.
20 >
21 > 3) its also been in the forums.
22 >
23 > 4) its been in my private mails too.
24 >
25 > 5) file bugs upstream or Fix it. the only reason its still there, is
26 > because the noise of it being broken is less than the noise I recieved
27 > when I stubbornly declined to include it because it was just that...
28 > broken.
29 >
30 > Sorry to appear irritated, but I am, I've been facing broken snapshots
31 > since april, and so far I've gotten no solid documentation on what makes
32 > it build, and quite some pointers that "but they have it".
33 >
34 >
35 > Yours,
36 > Irritable Maintainer.
37 >
38 > aka. Spider
39 >
40 >
41 >
42 >
43 > --
44 > begin .signature
45 > This is a .signature virus! Please copy me into your .signature!
46 > See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information.
47 > end