From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Jun 16 18:55:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DAAB14C2B for ; Wed, 16 Jun 1999 18:55:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from robert@cyrus.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (robert@fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA00483 for ; Wed, 16 Jun 1999 21:55:00 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from robert@cyrus.watson.org) Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 21:55:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org Reply-To: Robert Watson To: bugs@freebsd.org Subject: X11 dependency in ports collection following X11 install with sysinstall Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 3.2-RELEASE Instructions to reproduce: 1) install FreeBSD 3.2 sans X11 2) reboot, now install X11 distribution using /stand/sysinstall 3) Now attempt to build something depending on X11 (say, tk81) The dependency check on X11 will fail because sysinstall did not run ldconfig to pick up library changes. The result is that the port will attempt to compile and install X11. Most packages automatically rerun ldconfig when they install; perhaps distributions should do the same? Thanks, Robert N M Watson robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ PGP key fingerprint: AF B5 5F FF A6 4A 79 37 ED 5F 55 E9 58 04 6A B1 Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ TIS Labs at Network Associates, Inc. http://www.tis.com/ Safeport Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message