From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 23 10:56:22 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3DCD37B401 for ; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 10:56:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF36343F3F for ; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 10:56:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from topaz-out (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA09433; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 10:56:08 -0800 From: Kent Stewart To: Joe Marcus Clarke , Thanos Tsouanas Subject: Re: ld problems with Xft library Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 10:56:07 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Cc: FreeBSD User Questions List References: <20030223161629.30508.qmail@web13503.mail.yahoo.com> <1046017640.43287.20.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <1046017640.43287.20.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200302231056.07770.kstewart@owt.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday 23 February 2003 08:27 am, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 11:16, Thanos Tsouanas wrote: > > --- Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > > On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 07:04, Thanos Tsouanas wrote: > > > > Hello everyone! > > > > > > > > I have the current Xft port installed and when i pkg_deleted > > > > (-f) xscreensaver and gkrellm2 so > > > > > > as > > > > > > > to reinstall the new versions from the port, i got an error > > > > while make, complaining about /usr/libexec/ld not being able to > > > > find -lXft2 > > > > > > > > I tried deinstalling and reinstalling Xft2 but i still have the > > > > same problem. > > > > > > > > Now i cannot install anything that uses Xft :( > > > > > > > > Any ideas? > > > > I'm running freebsd4.7 , with the ports tree being cvsup'ed to > > > > the 'current' version. > > > > > > You missed my HEADS UP. In order to properly recover after the > > > recent Xft upgrade, you need to do a portupgrade -rf Xft. Yes, > > > this takes an exceptionally long time, but things like this are > > > rare, and it's really the only way to get back on track and stay > > > there. > > > > > > Joe > > > > Thanks!! > > I'm dloading the portupgrade port right now, i've never used it.. > > Shud i use it whenever im upgrading a port, or is the pkg_delete / > > make reinstall solution better? > > You should get into a habit of using portupgrade. It does more or > less does the make/pkg_delete/make reinstall thing, but it also saves > old libraries so you can binaries gradually, as well as verify > dependency order and consistency. It's also very flexible and > configurable. It isn't fool proof. I did that but right now (after I did a Xft-2 upgrade) I have a user login without proper fonts on kde-3. On the system creating the packages, I have user fonts but not on the system I used '-Pufr' to do the upgrades. When I say user, I mean I have fonts on a root login but not as my user name. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message