Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 14:00:18 +0000 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports problem Message-ID: <20071109140018.383dc45d@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <47346310.5000601@crackmonkey.us> References: <BAY108-W6276F31F1BE735411E7F0ED8F0@phx.gbl> <47346310.5000601@crackmonkey.us>
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On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 13:39:28 +0000 Adam J Richardson <fatman@crackmonkey.us> wrote: > Desmond Chapman wrote: > > /usr/X11R6 exists, but it is not a symlink. Installation cannot > > proceed. This looks like an incompletely removed old version of X. > > In the current version, /usr/X11R6 must be a symlink if it exists > > at all.Please read /usr/ports/UPDATING (entry of 20070519) for the > > procedure to upgrade X.org related ports.*** Error code 1 > > Hi Desmond, > > When I was faced with this error I did the obvious thing and created > a symlink, then restarted the install. Surely the *obvious* thing was to follow the instructions and read UPDATING. > Of course time will probably > prove it to be an utterly boneheaded thing to do, but it seems to > work for now. > > # mv /usr/X11R6 /usr/X11R6-2 > # ln -s /usr/X11R6-2 /usr/X11R6 > # make install You should put it back and run the mergebase script.
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