From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 26 17:48:03 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B920716A4CE for ; Wed, 26 May 2004 17:48:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.freeode.co.uk (freeode.co.uk [213.162.123.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05B4143D1F for ; Wed, 26 May 2004 17:48:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sub00@freeode.co.uk) Received: from lexx (lexx.freeode.co.uk [10.253.253.2]) by mail.freeode.co.uk (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i4R0lAYC036433 for ; Thu, 27 May 2004 01:47:10 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from sub00@freeode.co.uk) From: John Murphy To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 01:47:10 +0100 Message-ID: References: <200405262012.05462.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> <200405270022.22490.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <200405270022.22490.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: xfce4 port expat/p5-XML-Parser problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: sub00@freeode.co.uk List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 00:48:03 -0000 Michael Nottebrock wrote: >However, if you actually meant xfterm4, that belongs to = sysutils/xfce4-utils,=20 /Blush I did indeed. I should be more careful. >so you should try reinstalling that (x11-wm/xfce4 is a so-called = metaport=20 >which exists mainly to facilitate installing a collection of other ports= -=20 >deinstalling and reinstalling it will not change/update any of the ports= =20 >which actually provide the programs/data). Tried de and re installing sysutils/xfce4-utils but it didn't help. >However, sometimes you may find that even after recompiling, a binary = still=20 >references a shared library which doesn't exist anymore. This can happen= if a=20 >different shared library this binary links to is itself linked to the=20 >nonexistent lib. You can find out to what libraries a binary is linked = by=20 >doing ldd /path/to/binary. You can then again find out with ldd which of= =20 >those libraries link to what other libraries, eventually finding the one= =20 >which references the obsolete library, which you can then find the = respective=20 >port for with pkg_info -W and recompile (of course you can also ldd and = grep=20 >your way through /usr/local/lib and /usr/X11R6/lib). That's really informative, thank you. Turns out xfterm4 is a script so = ldd complained. The errors referred to ld-elf.so.1 but ldd that shedded no = light. I hate to admit (after your good advice) to symlinking libexpat.so.4 to libexpat.so.5 again, just to see if it would work, and it did. I expect something will fail at some stage though. --=20 John.