Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 08:55:03 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Dwayne.MacKinnon@xwave.com, x11@freebsd.org Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: XFree86-4-clients-4.3.0 Message-ID: <200401190855.04014.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <400BFD70.8030403@xwave.com> References: <400BFD70.8030403@xwave.com>
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On Monday 19 January 2004 07:53 am, Dwayne MacKinnon wrote: > Hello, > > I recently (last Thursday) cvsup'ed my ports tree and went to > compile XFree86-4-clients-4.3.0_6. The compile failed, with the > following message: > > cc -o bdftopcf -O -pipe -ansi -Dasm=__asm -Wall -Wpointer-arith > -Wundef -L/usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4-clients/work/xc/exports/lib > bdftopcf.o -lXfont -lfntstubs -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lz -lm > -Wl,-rpath,/usr/X11R6/lib /usr/libexec/elf/ld: cannot find -lXfont > > I installed x11/libXfont, and this problem vanished. There is > apparently an undocumented dependency on x11/libXfont. > It is documented. The build dependancy of -clients lists -libraries, which installs libXfont. You upgraded an old -server, which used to maintain libXfont. The deinstall deleted Xfont and the reinstall didn't add it back. The fix is to re-install -libraries. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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