Date: 23 Feb 2003 14:12:04 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> Cc: Thanos Tsouanas <thief_grr@yahoo.com>, FreeBSD User Questions List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ld problems with Xft library Message-ID: <1046027524.43287.39.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <200302231056.07770.kstewart@owt.com> References: <20030223161629.30508.qmail@web13503.mail.yahoo.com> <1046017640.43287.20.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <200302231056.07770.kstewart@owt.com>
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--=-OJArhnOH/tdKfu2r+sqJ Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 13:56, Kent Stewart wrote: > On Sunday 23 February 2003 08:27 am, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 11:16, Thanos Tsouanas wrote: > > > --- Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> 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? > > > > 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. >=20 > It isn't fool proof. I did that but right now (after I did a Xft-2=20 > upgrade) I have a user login without proper fonts on kde-3. On the=20 > system creating the packages, I have user fonts but not on the system I=20 > used '-Pufr' to do the upgrades. When I say user, I mean I have fonts=20 > on a root login but not as my user name. Run fc-cache -f -v and see if that helps. Joe >=20 > Kent --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-OJArhnOH/tdKfu2r+sqJ 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+WR0Eb2iPiv4Uz4cRApbRAJoD6O8AJbAJXk82ycKS6Ysqz+YRIwCgp42U mh9n6xRsRjqcwaoSplT6+M0= =51jA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-OJArhnOH/tdKfu2r+sqJ-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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