Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 00:22:09 +0000 From: Florent Thoumie <flz@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: library problems Message-ID: <4574BBB1.9080007@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20061204234748.GA4314@mail.scottro.net> References: <20061204234748.GA4314@mail.scottro.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Scott Robbins wrote: > When I mentioned that I had been having trouble with various port > managing utilities and the git repository, someone suggested that I do > make index. > > This seems to have worked on 6.2-PRE-RELEASE. However, on my > CURRENT install, something went wrong. I am not sure when, so I can't > consider this a bug report. :) > > At any rate, suddenly, various and sundry applications are looking for > the libraries, which are there in /usr/X11R6/lib in /usr/local/lib. > > So far, I've just been doing symlinks as the problem arises, trying to > remember what I did to make this happen. > > Has anyone run into this, and do they have any idea how I cleverly > managed to break something that was running quite well? > > This, of course, is the trouble with playing. One doesn't pay close > attention to what they're doing. I think the problem actually began > when I did the make index--it was looking for a library that was needed. > > I then played around trying to upgrade various things--brilliantly not > bothering to keep track of what I was doing. > > At any rate, not that my stupidity deserves it, but if someone has any > ideas, I'd be grateful. I'd love to know how I did this. > > I want to make sure that it's clear that after the original upgrade to > xorg-7.1 everything was working, there were no missing library errors > like this. Making INDEX shouldn't require any libraries in /usr/local/lib or /usr/X11R6/lib. If you happen to try it again, please keep track of the error messages. Thanks for your testing. -- Florent Thoumie flz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD Committer [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFdLu2MxEkbVFH3PQRCklbAJ9wRZKRmjcIk1HAQF8OcFE6GIA9HgCgjFzx pfLCQPnP8hj+wt17UAk41C4= =l9hH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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