From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 23 11:12:12 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 1456637B401 for ; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 11:12:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (rdu57-17-158.nc.rr.com [66.57.17.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD3AF43FB1 for ; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 11:12:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from [192.168.1.4] (shumai.marcuscom.com [192.168.1.4]) by creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h1NJBrZX079329; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 14:11:53 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Subject: Re: ld problems with Xft library From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: Kent Stewart Cc: Thanos Tsouanas , FreeBSD User Questions List In-Reply-To: <200302231056.07770.kstewart@owt.com> References: <20030223161629.30508.qmail@web13503.mail.yahoo.com> <1046017640.43287.20.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <200302231056.07770.kstewart@owt.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-OJArhnOH/tdKfu2r+sqJ" Organization: MarcusCom, Inc. Message-Id: <1046027524.43287.39.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 Date: 23 Feb 2003 14:12:04 -0500 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-33.0 required=5.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,PGP_SIGNATURE_2, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,QUOTE_TWICE_1,REFERENCES, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES version=2.50 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) 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 --=-OJArhnOH/tdKfu2r+sqJ Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 13:56, Kent Stewart wrote: > 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. >=20 > It isn't fool proof. I did that but right now (after I did a Xft-2=20 > upgrade) I have a user login without proper fonts on kde-3. On the=20 > system creating the packages, I have user fonts but not on the system I=20 > used '-Pufr' to do the upgrades. When I say user, I mean I have fonts=20 > on a root login but not as my user name. Run fc-cache -f -v and see if that helps. Joe >=20 > Kent --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-OJArhnOH/tdKfu2r+sqJ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA+WR0Eb2iPiv4Uz4cRApbRAJoD6O8AJbAJXk82ycKS6Ysqz+YRIwCgp42U mh9n6xRsRjqcwaoSplT6+M0= =51jA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-OJArhnOH/tdKfu2r+sqJ-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message