From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 23 8:16:32 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 894DA37B401 for ; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 08:16:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from web13503.mail.yahoo.com (web13503.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.175.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F340743F3F for ; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 08:16:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from thief_grr@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20030223161629.30508.qmail@web13503.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [195.167.127.229] by web13503.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 08:16:29 PST Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 08:16:29 -0800 (PST) From: Thanos Tsouanas Subject: Re: ld problems with Xft library To: Joe Marcus Clarke Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <1046015980.43287.8.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --- Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 07:04, Thanos Tsouanas wrote: > > Hello everyone! > > > > I have the current Xft port installed and when i pkg_deleted (-f) xscreensaver and gkrellm2 so > as > > to reinstall the new versions from the port, i got an error while make, complaining about > > /usr/libexec/ld not being able to find -lXft2 > > > > I tried deinstalling and reinstalling Xft2 but i still have the same problem. > > > > Now i cannot install anything that uses Xft :( > > > > Any ideas? > > I'm running freebsd4.7 , with the ports tree being cvsup'ed to the 'current' version. > > You missed my HEADS UP. In order to properly recover after the recent > Xft upgrade, you need to do a portupgrade -rf Xft. Yes, this takes an > exceptionally long time, but things like this are rare, and it's really > the only way to get back on track and stay there. > > Joe > Thanks!! I'm dloading the portupgrade port right now, i've never used it.. Shud i use it whenever im upgrading a port, or is the pkg_delete / make reinstall solution better? Yours. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message