From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 28 09:40:01 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43F28106564A for ; Sat, 28 Jan 2012 09:40:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Received: from eastrmfepo202.cox.net (eastrmfepo202.cox.net [68.230.241.217]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D59468FC12 for ; Sat, 28 Jan 2012 09:40:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eastrmimpo210.cox.net ([68.230.241.225]) by eastrmfepo202.cox.net (InterMail vM.8.01.04.00 201-2260-137-20101110) with ESMTP id <20120128093955.FKC2803.eastrmfepo202.cox.net@eastrmimpo210.cox.net>; Sat, 28 Jan 2012 04:39:55 -0500 Received: from serene.no-ip.org ([98.164.86.55]) by eastrmimpo210.cox.net with bizsmtp id Sxfl1i0011BeFqy02xfqyz; Sat, 28 Jan 2012 04:39:54 -0500 X-CT-Class: Clean X-CT-Score: 0.00 X-CT-RefID: str=0001.0A020201.4F23C26B.0013,ss=1,re=0.000,fgs=0 X-CT-Spam: 0 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=4TSiKx4YMJ+Qkan/hobMEiRAilDeXpl1tcD53jPShvw= c=1 sm=1 a=SvvsGSzq6LEA:10 a=G8Uczd0VNMoA:10 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=fdHYxQQoAueMHNSmXppgDg==:17 a=69EAbJreAAAA:8 a=I6FhtcCzAAAA:8 a=6I5d2MoRAAAA:8 a=kviXuzpPAAAA:8 a=CcMFhVyAvanHewe1bHMA:9 a=T9ERDGjSXyVP4Q3t7vMA:7 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=sFOqHNSdeX8A:10 a=EfJqPEOeqlMA:10 a=4vB-4DCPJfMA:10 a=fdHYxQQoAueMHNSmXppgDg==:117 X-CM-Score: 0.00 Authentication-Results: cox.net; none Received: from cox.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by serene.no-ip.org (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q0S9dGQ2060940; Sat, 28 Jan 2012 03:39:20 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 03:39:10 -0600 From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20120128033910.38feeef5@cox.net> In-Reply-To: References: <20120125205344.6597f949@cox.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.6; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Mark Felder , Jakub Lach Subject: Re: UPDATING 20120116 -- x11/xcb-util -- instructions not working X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 09:40:01 -0000 On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 06:06:57 -0500 Michael Powell wrote: > Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > > > On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:53:39 -0600 > > Mark Felder wrote: > > > >> For the life of me I can't work around this xcb-util issue. This is > >> a pretty fresh install and I have not made any workaround symlinks. > >> > >> I ran: > >> > >> # portmaster -R -r xcb-util-0 > >> > >> And the problem persists. It didn't even complete all the packages > >> because some were still erroring on missing xcb libraries. > >> > >> Example, editors/mousepad: > >> > >> > >> libtool: link: cannot find the library > >> `/usr/local/lib/libxcb-aux.la' or unhandled argument > >> `/usr/local/lib/libxcb-aux.la' gmake[2]: *** [mousepad] Error 1 > > > > I'm getting this same error in several ports. Just exactly which > > package is supposed to be providing libxcb-aux.la? And why isn't > > it? > > > > I'm not exactly certain about this, and so am probably wrong. I > thought the '*.la' files were 'linker archives' created by libtool. Yes, that's right. > But I never really got completely through the process of fully > understanding exactly how all the autotools, make and gmake, and > libtool operate. I did some research on this issue yesterday, and found the answer. I posted a complete explanation with step-by-step instructions to the FreeBSD Forums at: http://forums.FreeBSD.org/showthread.php?p=163415#post163415 Sorry, I should have followed up here sooner as well. :-) -- Conrad J. Sabatier conrads@cox.net