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Date:      Thu, 29 Jan 2004 08:09:35 -0500
From:      "Lee Dilkie" <lee@dilkie.com>
To:        <jammet@swbell.net>, <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: Portupgrade and a lot of packages not being build or not compilingproperly.
Message-ID:  <013e01c3e669$255de190$c10133ce@dilkie.com>
In-Reply-To: <1075347554.47768.11.camel@Desolation>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Jammet
> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 10:39 PM
> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org
> Subject: Portupgrade and a lot of packages not being build or not
> compilingproperly.
>
>
> I am a 4 day old fbsd user, i used linux for about 8 years
> before that,
> but im trying to figure out how to make portupgrade compile everything
> and fix the depenincy problems i seem to be running in too. I
> generally
> work best with a step by step idea of help, if you tell me to go to a
> man file that wont help because i have read the portupgrade manual, i
> have read the handbook 7 times all the way through. So please any help
> with this would be greatly appreciated.
>

Looks like you got bitten by a recent bug-ette in gettext. I'm sure it'll be
fixed soon enough but in the meantime, follow the directions below and you
should be able to get portupgrade to complete.

[from kent]
> ...
>
> Maybe I messed something up during the pkgdb command.
> Can someone help me figure out what to do to get the evolution port
> to install?

You have to
pkg_delete -f gettext-0.12.1
cd /usr/ports/devel/gettext-old
make install

[and do the hold_pkgs thing]
as described at
http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?threadid=18154

hopefully we'll be able to remove that soon.

-lee




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