From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 23 8:27:31 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 A6E0737B401 for ; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 08:27:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (rdu57-17-158.nc.rr.com [66.57.17.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9C2843F85 for ; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 08:27:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from [192.168.1.4] (shumai.marcuscom.com [192.168.1.4]) by creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h1NGRAZX077997; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 11:27:10 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Subject: Re: ld problems with Xft library From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: Thanos Tsouanas Cc: FreeBSD User Questions List In-Reply-To: <20030223161629.30508.qmail@web13503.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20030223161629.30508.qmail@web13503.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-TZ4En4MB0zm0fGySA0r2" Organization: MarcusCom, Inc. Message-Id: <1046017640.43287.20.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 Date: 23 Feb 2003 11:27:20 -0500 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-33.0 required=5.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,PGP_SIGNATURE_2, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,QUOTE_TWICE_1,REFERENCES, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES version=2.50 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) 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 --=-TZ4En4MB0zm0fGySA0r2 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 11:16, Thanos Tsouanas wrote: > --- Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 07:04, Thanos Tsouanas wrote: > > > Hello everyone! > > >=20 > > > I have the current Xft port installed and when i pkg_deleted (-f) xsc= reensaver and gkrellm2 so > > as > > > to reinstall the new versions from the port, i got an error while mak= e, complaining about > > > /usr/libexec/ld not being able to find -lXft2 > > >=20 > > > I tried deinstalling and reinstalling Xft2 but i still have the same = problem. > > >=20 > > > Now i cannot install anything that uses Xft :( > > >=20 > > > Any ideas? > > > I'm running freebsd4.7 , with the ports tree being cvsup'ed to the 'c= urrent' version. > >=20 > > 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. > >=20 > > Joe > >=20 >=20 > 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 r= einstall > solution better? You should get into a habit of using portupgrade. It does more or less does the make/pkg_delete/make reinstall thing, but it also saves old libraries so you can binaries gradually, as well as verify dependency order and consistency. It's also very flexible and configurable. Joe >=20 > Yours. >=20 >=20 >=20 > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more > http://taxes.yahoo.com/ --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-TZ4En4MB0zm0fGySA0r2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA+WPZob2iPiv4Uz4cRAlxvAKCO9gjyY/lFuLn+z1yCZZL0LgstegCfUooG oAbL9mCttobVeRgw/rBQNmw= =iW7Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-TZ4En4MB0zm0fGySA0r2-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message