From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 26 11:06:28 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3E57106566B for ; Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:06:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2333F8FC0C for ; Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:06:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RqN9u-0001YU-Ua for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:06:26 +0100 Received: from pool-173-79-99-96.washdc.fios.verizon.net ([173.79.99.96]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:06:26 +0100 Received: from nightrecon by pool-173-79-99-96.washdc.fios.verizon.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:06:26 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Michael Powell Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 06:06:57 -0500 Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <20120125205344.6597f949@cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-173-79-99-96.washdc.fios.verizon.net Subject: Re: UPDATING 20120116 -- x11/xcb-util -- instructions not working X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: nightrecon@hotmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:06:28 -0000 Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:53:39 -0600 > Mark Felder wrote: > >> For the life of me I can't work around this xcb-util issue. This is >> a pretty fresh install and I have not made any workaround symlinks. >> >> I ran: >> >> # portmaster -R -r xcb-util-0 >> >> And the problem persists. It didn't even complete all the packages >> because some were still erroring on missing xcb libraries. >> >> Example, editors/mousepad: >> >> >> libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/local/lib/libxcb-aux.la' >> or unhandled argument `/usr/local/lib/libxcb-aux.la' >> gmake[2]: *** [mousepad] Error 1 > > I'm getting this same error in several ports. Just exactly which > package is supposed to be providing libxcb-aux.la? And why isn't it? > I'm not exactly certain about this, and so am probably wrong. I thought the '*.la' files were 'linker archives' created by libtool. But I never really got completely through the process of fully understanding exactly how all the autotools, make and gmake, and libtool operate. -Mike