Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 14:16:19 +0200 From: Alex de Kruijff <freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl> To: knowtree@aloha.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot update XFree86-4 Message-ID: <20041007121619.GA768@alex.lan> In-Reply-To: <200409231854.i8NIs9h15088@yoda.pixi.com> References: <200409231854.i8NIs9h15088@yoda.pixi.com>
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On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 08:54:09AM +0000, knowtree@aloha.com wrote: > Thanks for the help. I went ahead yesterday and hacked away for awhile, and > worked around the problem. The reason I was nervous about those portupgrade > flags is that in the past portupgrade has made a mess of things, doing too > much at a time, and they are not mentioned in the note in the XFree86-4 > port. I figured, if it needed those dependency checks it would have said > so. Too conservative? I beleave so. Portupgrade can cause problem, but it realy did so for me. A bug does exist currently in ruby that can cause problem running it. The workaround for this is setting the following variables: PORTS_DBDRIVER=bdb1_hash PKG_DBDRIVER=bdb1_hash > The first fix was a dependency on /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/ddx.txt which > always failed because the file extension is is caps -- ddx.TXT. I made a > link so both versions were there and got past that point. > > The second fix solved a problem building fonts, where one of the make files > was trying to run perl with a program called ucs2any. This stopped with > "Unrecognized character \177 at /usr/X11R6/bin/ucs2any line 1." On my > system, that file is a binary; there is a ucs2any.pl in the same directiry. > I renamed the bin and linked the .pl to the no -extension version, and the > fonts built perfectly. I admire you devotion. I would just rebuild everything by now. -- Alex Please copy the original recipients, otherwise I may not read your reply. WWW: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/FreeBSD/
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