From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jan 26 22:55:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from westhost43.westhost.net (westhost43.westhost.net [216.71.84.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1293937B416 for ; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 22:55:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (burningclown@localhost) by westhost43.westhost.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0R71rW15620; Sun, 27 Jan 2002 01:01:53 -0600 Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 01:01:53 -0600 (CST) From: To: John Merryweather Cooper Cc: Subject: Re: can't build anything Gnome In-Reply-To: <20020126224809.E22187@johncoop.MSHOME> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks! -g On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, John Merryweather Cooper wrote: > Not much a GNOME problem really. Your tree has inconsistent shared > libraries in it. For example, with multiple versions of libpng > installed (which you clearly have), it's a miracle much of anything > works. > > Although reasonable minds may differ, I like portupgrade. One way to > solve your problem (there are many others) is to: > > 1) install portupgrade > 2) read the documentation > 3) run pkgdb -FuU (or a commandline similar to above) > 4) run portsclean -D (to get rid of obsolote shared libraries) > 4a) run cvsup to update the ports tree > 5) run pkgdb as above again (important to have a consistent database) > 6) run portupgrade -a (to update all your installed ports to the most > recent version) > 7) deinstall all ORBit ports that you have installed (if they are) > 8) install the GNOME meta-port in x11/gnome > > Things should work better after this . . . > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message