Re: [gentoo-dev] Error compiling sawfish-20020611.ebuild

[Richard Reich <rreich@rdrtech.com>]

My apologies for not being a responsible netzin and doing a quick search
in the mailing list.

Thanks for the heads up though
Richard Reich

On Mon, 2002-06-17 at 14:16, Spider wrote:
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> On 17 Jun 2002 13:04:47 -0400
> Richard Reich <rreich@rdrtech.com> wrote:
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> > Here is the error, is there anything I can do to fix this?
> > 
> > Thanks 
> > Richard Reich
> 
> 1) Read ChangeLog.  Its been a documented fact that Sawfish snapshots
> are broken and fail to compile for quite some time now.  
> 2) http://bugs.gentoo.org/ Has at least two exactly the same entries. 
> 
> 3) its also been in the forums.
> 
> 4) its been in my private mails too.
> 
> 5) file bugs upstream or Fix it. the only reason its still there, is
> because the noise of it being broken is less than the noise I recieved
> when I stubbornly declined to include it because it was just that...
> broken.
> 
> Sorry to appear irritated, but I am, I've been facing broken snapshots
> since april, and so far I've gotten no solid documentation on what makes
> it build, and quite some pointers that "but they have it".  
> 
> 
> Yours, 
>   Irritable Maintainer.  
> 
> aka. Spider
> 
> 
> 
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