Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 15:18:27 -0400 From: Gerald A.Speak <gaspeak@va.prestige.net> To: "Gerald T. Freymann" <freymann@scaryg.shacknet.nu>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: I broke my Gnome Message-ID: <20011002191831.116B337B405@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <00c301c14b72$9d6bd7d0$0f01a8c0@phantom> References: <00c301c14b72$9d6bd7d0$0f01a8c0@phantom>
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Hi, just a suggestion but try "man portupgrade" pay special attention to --force, and --upward-recursive. Also take note of the examples. Hope this helps. On Tuesday 02 October 2001 02:46 pm, Gerald T. Freymann wrote: > I had run portupgrade Sunday afternoon to update a few ports and it updated > a few others that then broke gnome. > > I've been working since then to get Gnome back and I'm pretty well stuck. > > I deleted every port/package that got mucked up (some had two versions, old > and new) and reinstalled but the make still chokes from within > /usr/ports/x11/gnome. > > So I thought I'd be real clever, and print out the dependencies for gnome > and just deal with each one individually. Made some progress > > Except now, what I have left chokes in two places. > > I cannot make "gnomecore" It always hangs around libgtkxmhtml.so > > /usr/X11R6/lib/libgtkxmhtml.so: warning: tmpnam() possibly used unsafely; > consider using mkstemp() > /usr/X11R6/lib/libgtkxmhtml.so: undefined reference to `no symbol' > gmake[3]: *** [gnome-help-browser] Error 1 > gmake[3]: Leaving directory > `/usr/ports/x11/gnomecore/work/gnome-core-1.4.0.4/help-browser' > gmake[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 > gmake[2]: Leaving directory > `/usr/ports/x11/gnomecore/work/gnome-core-1.4.0.4/help-browser' > gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 > gmake[1]: Leaving directory > `/usr/ports/x11/gnomecore/work/gnome-core-1.4.0.4' > gmake: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2 > > Since I cannot make gnomecore, I have 13 other ports I can't make either. > > I also have what appears to be 3 programs requiring libGL.so? or at least > that's where the error appears to come from. > > I guess the morale of the story is, if it ain't broke -- don't upgrade or > fix it!? > > How on earth do I get Gnome back? Xwindows sucks without a desktop manager. > > I was thinking I'd go ahead and delete every dependacy again and perhaps > whimp out and use /stand/sysinstall and get the premade packages... I've > noticed the packages aren't always as up to date as the ports are though. > > Any suggestions? > > gf. > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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