From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 8 19:23:10 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 B1EDA16A4CE for ; Mon, 8 Mar 2004 19:23:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from razorbill.mail.pas.earthlink.net (razorbill.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.121.248]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DD4743D1D for ; Mon, 8 Mar 2004 19:23:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from michaeldunham@earthlink.net) Received: from 64-30-114-84.ftth.surewest.net ([64.30.114.84] helo=earthlink.net) by razorbill.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1B0Xpl-0005PH-00; Mon, 08 Mar 2004 19:23:09 -0800 Message-ID: <404D3715.30901@earthlink.net> Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 19:16:37 -0800 From: Michael Dunham Organization: Kestel Works User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kennaway References: <404D2E53.1050505@earthlink.net> <20040309030733.GA18671@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20040309030733.GA18671@xor.obsecurity.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: 54c801475b82b152c94e5354dc58875674bf435c0eb9d478ed967c9c452dd2b046b54ccc03a531dffeca995667aca2c1350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Fwd: libXext Problems when upgrading ports] X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: mdunham@kestrelworks.com List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 03:23:10 -0000 Kris Kennaway wrote: >On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 06:39:15PM -0800, Michael Dunham wrote: > > >>I'm encountering several ports that are failing upgrades to a "missing >>libXext" .. >> >>The latest is Digikam >> >>failure listing below: >>checking for IceConnectionNumber in -lICE... yes >>checking for libXext... no >>configure: error: We need a working libXext to proceed. Since >>configure >>can't find it itself, we stop here assuming that make wouldn't >>find >>them either. >>===> Script "configure" failed unexpectedly. >>Please report the problem to avleeuwen@piwebs.com [maintainer] >>and attach the >>"/home/ports/graphics/digikam/work/digikam-0.6/config.log" inc >>luding the >>output of the failure of your make command. Also, it might be >>a good idea to >>provide an overview of all packages installed on your system >>( e.g. an `ls >>/var/db/pkg`). >>*** Error code 1 >> >> > >How about you start by following the advice given to you by the >system? :-) > >Kris > > No offense Kris - I have tried that. As I mentioned, this is not an isolated issue for my system for some reason. I don't want to spam a group of ports maintainers with a problem that is general across several ports for me and not specific to this port. I'm looking for a suggestion for what I should do to solve the whole problem if anyone has encountered something similar. Mike