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Date:      Tue, 20 Mar 2012 22:52:32 -0700
From:      Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com>
To:        Mel Flynn <rflynn@acsalaska.net>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: libxcb-related breakage in ports
Message-ID:  <CAN6yY1vGu1x-V5CtFUZ181Rt0gbRAoV2xgOiCejogAG891K41A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4F691E2F.1050209@acsalaska.net>
References:  <201203201948.q2KJmZ5A017485@m5p.com> <4F68E6C5.7090007@acsalaska.net> <4F690448.7080006@m5p.com> <4F691E2F.1050209@acsalaska.net>

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On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Mel Flynn <rflynn@acsalaska.net> wrote:
> On 3/20/2012 23:27, George Mitchell wrote:
>> On 03/20/12 16:21, Mel Flynn wrote:
>>> On 3/20/2012 20:48, george+freebsd@m5p.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/local/lib/libxcb-aux.la'
>>>> or unhandled argument `/usr/local/lib/libxcb-aux.la'
>>>> gmake[3]: *** [xfwm4-workspace-settings] Error 1
>>>> gmake[3]: Leaving directory
>>>> `/usr/ports/x11-wm/xfce4-wm/work/xfwm4-4.8.3/settings-dialogs'
>>>> gmake[2]: *** [all] Error 2
>>>
>>> You forgot two things:
>>> - pkg_updating xcb
>>> - http://tinyurl.com/7taullk
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for the pointer; I will try this out. =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0=
 -- George
>
> Recovering from not reading /usr/ports/UPDATING is in this case quite a
> bit harder. The method is basically:
> 1) pkg_delete <port that links with old libxcb>
> 2) portmaster <failing port's origin>
> 3) portmaster -r libxcb
> 4) goto 1 if more failures
>
> Also, you may want to read up on pkg_updating pcre, cause that one's
> even harder to recover from as some ports do braindead things as linking
> to it's old version library during compilation (avahi-*).

Much, much faster is to install sysutils/bsdadminscripts and use
'pkg_libchk -o' | grep xcb to find all of the ports you will need to
re-build. It will probably be no more then low 2 digits while
'portmaster -r libxcb' likely catch a couple of hundred.
--=20
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
E-mail: kob6558@gmail.com



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