Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 07:58:11 -0800 From: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> To: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@coosemans.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to Find Why Port "X" Is Installed? Message-ID: <BLU0-SMTP4079C989C35436613F51A3B3830@phx.gbl> In-Reply-To: <20140227162018.3314629c@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> References: <BLU0-SMTP633F512AE638514255E032B3830@phx.gbl> <20140227162018.3314629c@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org>
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On 2/27/2014 7:20 AM, Tijl Coosemans wrote: > On Thu, 27 Feb 2014 07:06:46 -0800 Drew Tomlinson wrote: >> I'm using FBSD 10 and trying to work through the things I broke after >> running 'make delete-old-libs' as suggested in the handbook. Ultimately >> I just rebuilt all ports with 'portupgrade -f "*" '. Unfortunately, I >> had an issue with databases/db42 and then other issues because it failed. >> >> I tried running it again and saw messages about it being deprecated. >> Then it failed with this line: >> >> /usr/bin/ld: .libs/cxx_db.o: relocation R_X86_64_32S against `_ZTV2Db' >> can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC >> .libs/cxx_db.o: could not read symbols: Bad value >> c++: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see >> invocation) >> *** [libdb_cxx-4.2.la] Error code 1 >> >> So I don't know what that is all about but it led me to wonder why >> databases/db42 is on my system in the first place. If I know what port >> pulled it in, then maybe I can rebuild that port to use a newer version >> of this that's not deprecated. I've read the new pkg man page but can't >> figure out how to get it to tell me what pulled databases/db42 in. > pkg info -rx db42 > > You can read more about this in pkg-info(8) or with "pkg help info". Thank you for your reply. I didn't realize there was another man page for each function. Cheers, Drew -- Like card tricks? Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse to learn card magic secrets for free! http://alchemistswarehouse.com
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