From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 7 12:16:53 2004 Return-Path: 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 3D87416A4CE for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2004 12:16:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp17.wxs.nl (smtp17.wxs.nl [195.121.6.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A547443D2F for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2004 12:16:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl) Received: from kruij557.speed.planet.nl (ipd50a97ba.speed.planet.nl [213.10.151.186]) by smtp17.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.25 (built Mar 3 2004)) with ESMTP id <0I57006D5RF98Q@smtp17.wxs.nl> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 07 Oct 2004 14:16:21 +0200 (CEST) Received: from alex.lan (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kruij557.speed.planet.nl (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i97CGKqJ001611; Thu, 07 Oct 2004 14:16:20 +0200 Received: (from akruijff@localhost) by alex.lan (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i97CGJHW001610; Thu, 07 Oct 2004 14:16:19 +0200 Content-return: prohibited Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 14:16:19 +0200 From: Alex de Kruijff In-reply-to: <200409231854.i8NIs9h15088@yoda.pixi.com> To: knowtree@aloha.com Message-id: <20041007121619.GA768@alex.lan> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i References: <200409231854.i8NIs9h15088@yoda.pixi.com> X-Authentication-warning: alex.lan: akruijff set sender to freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl using -f cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot update XFree86-4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 12:16:53 -0000 On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 08:54:09AM +0000, knowtree@aloha.com wrote: > Thanks for the help. I went ahead yesterday and hacked away for awhile, and > worked around the problem. The reason I was nervous about those portupgrade > flags is that in the past portupgrade has made a mess of things, doing too > much at a time, and they are not mentioned in the note in the XFree86-4 > port. I figured, if it needed those dependency checks it would have said > so. Too conservative? I beleave so. Portupgrade can cause problem, but it realy did so for me. A bug does exist currently in ruby that can cause problem running it. The workaround for this is setting the following variables: PORTS_DBDRIVER=bdb1_hash PKG_DBDRIVER=bdb1_hash > The first fix was a dependency on /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/ddx.txt which > always failed because the file extension is is caps -- ddx.TXT. I made a > link so both versions were there and got past that point. > > The second fix solved a problem building fonts, where one of the make files > was trying to run perl with a program called ucs2any. This stopped with > "Unrecognized character \177 at /usr/X11R6/bin/ucs2any line 1." On my > system, that file is a binary; there is a ucs2any.pl in the same directiry. > I renamed the bin and linked the .pl to the no -extension version, and the > fonts built perfectly. I admire you devotion. I would just rebuild everything by now. -- Alex Please copy the original recipients, otherwise I may not read your reply. WWW: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/FreeBSD/