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Subject: Re: Problem building various ports (dependencies).
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On 02/12/07 02:42, Ian FREISLICH wrote:
> Eric Anderson wrote:
>>> Is the problem with the way the ports collection detects the existence
>>> of dependencies or with the way the dependencies are installed?
>> I'm guessing it's the removal of objformat from the tree.  You can try 
>> to grab the pre-removal version, and compile/install it.  This helped me 
>> build my ports again.  Painful.
> 
> Hmm.  That would be it.  Seems like it's been threatened for a long time.
> 
> ----------------------------
> revision 1.19
> date: 2007/01/25 22:26:41;  author: peter;  state: dead;  lines: +1 -1
> Retire objformat(1) as threatened in 2002.
> 
> Ian


Yep.  I'm no ports guru, but seems like prior to whacking this, a quick 
burn through the ports should have been done.  Not sure if it's 
happening now or not, but I just put objformat back to move on..

Eric