From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 24 2:22:35 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 844B837B401 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 02:22:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from web13503.mail.yahoo.com (web13503.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.175.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0C10E43FBF for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 02:22:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from thief_grr@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20030224102232.42958.qmail@web13503.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [195.167.127.229] by web13503.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 02:22:32 PST Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 02:22:32 -0800 (PST) From: Thanos Tsouanas Subject: Re: ld problems with Xft library To: Joe Marcus Clarke Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <1046049683.43287.78.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --- Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 19:41, Thanos Tsouanas wrote: > > --- Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > > On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 11:16, Thanos Tsouanas wrote: > > > > --- Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 07:04, Thanos Tsouanas wrote: > > > > > > Hello everyone! > > > > > > > > > > > > I have the current Xft port installed and when i pkg_deleted (-f) xscreensaver and > > > gkrellm2 so > > > > > as > > > > > > to reinstall the new versions from the port, i got an error while make, complaining > about > > > > > > /usr/libexec/ld not being able to find -lXft2 > > > > > > > > > > > > I tried deinstalling and reinstalling Xft2 but i still have the same problem. > > > > > > > > > > > > Now i cannot install anything that uses Xft :( > > > > > > > > > > > > Any ideas? > > > > > > I'm running freebsd4.7 , with the ports tree being cvsup'ed to the 'current' version. > > > > > > > > > > You missed my HEADS UP. In order to properly recover after the recent > > > > > Xft upgrade, you need to do a portupgrade -rf Xft. Yes, this takes an > > > > > exceptionally long time, but things like this are rare, and it's really > > > > > the only way to get back on track and stay there. > > > > > > > > > > Joe > > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks!! > > > > I'm dloading the portupgrade port right now, i've never used it.. > > > > Shud i use it whenever im upgrading a port, or is the pkg_delete / make reinstall > > > > solution better? > > > > > > You should get into a habit of using portupgrade. It does more or less > > > does the make/pkg_delete/make reinstall thing, but it also saves old > > > libraries so you can binaries gradually, as well as verify dependency > > > order and consistency. It's also very flexible and configurable. > > > > I'm done with the portupgrade -rf Xft and...... same error msg about -lXft2 > > > > Any other ideas? > > Did you do a make clean before resuming the build? :( I had pkg_deleted the Xft, make deinstall it and make clean and whatever similar action i cud think of... __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message