From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 6 18: 0: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3769115874 for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 17:59:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA21225; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 20:58:23 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <200001070158.UAA21225@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: Insanity with ports dependencies In-Reply-To: from Arcady Genkin at "Jan 6, 2000 07:11:30 pm" To: a.genkin@utoronto.ca (Arcady Genkin) Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 20:58:23 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Arcady Genkin wrote, > Hi all: > > I installed 3.4-R only yesterday. I made a minimal installation > and then compiled a whole bunch of programs from ports. > > Today it seems that there's something wrong with dependencies. > > Whenever I try to install a new port, it checks for a package > that it depends on, and then mistakenly thinks that that package > is not installed. 8-/ > > Right now I'm recompiling XFree (how much do I regret typing that > "make clean" yesterday!!!) because netscape would not install, > reporting a missing XR11.6 library. > > Now I wanted to compile sane. Sure enough... missing gtk-1.2.6... > missing glib12.3. > > ,----[ Snippet from install output ] > | ===> Extracting for sane-1.0.1 > | >> Checksum OK for sane-1.0.1.tar.gz. > | ===> sane-1.0.1 depends on executable: gmake - found > | ===> sane-1.0.1 depends on shared library: gtk12.2 - not found > | ===> Verifying install for gtk12.2 in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/gtk12 > | ===> Extracting for gtk-1.2.6 > | >> Checksum OK for gtk+-1.2.6.tar.gz. > | ===> gtk-1.2.6 depends on executable: libtool - found > | ===> gtk-1.2.6 depends on shared library: glib12.3 - not found > | ===> Verifying install for glib12.3 in /usr/ports/devel/glib12 > | ===> Installing for glib-1.2.6 > | ===> glib-1.2.6 is already installed - perhaps an older version? > | If so, you may wish to ``make deinstall'' and install > | this port again by ``make reinstall'' to upgrade it properly. > | If you really wish to overwrite the old port of glib-1.2.6 > | without deleting it first, set the variable "FORCE_PKG_REGISTER" > | in your environment or the "make install" command line. > `---- > > While all of those packages already are installed: > > ,----[ /usr/sbin/pkg_info | egrep 'gtk|glib' ] > | glib-1.2.6 Some useful routines of C programming > | gtk---1.0.3 C++ wrapper for gtk, a x11 graphics library > | gtk-1.2.6 General Toolkit for X11 GUI > `---- > > What am I to do? The checks that are failing are for the shared libs. Are they really there? Do a, % ls -l /usr/local/lib/lib*.so* To see what you have. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message