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Date:      Tue, 2 Oct 2001 15:18:27 -0400
From:      Gerald A.Speak <gaspeak@va.prestige.net>
To:        "Gerald T. Freymann" <freymann@scaryg.shacknet.nu>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: I broke my Gnome
Message-ID:  <20011002191831.116B337B405@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <00c301c14b72$9d6bd7d0$0f01a8c0@phantom>
References:  <00c301c14b72$9d6bd7d0$0f01a8c0@phantom>

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Hi,
just a suggestion but try "man portupgrade"  pay special attention to 
--force, and --upward-recursive.  Also take note of the examples.
Hope this helps.

On Tuesday 02 October 2001 02:46 pm, Gerald T. Freymann wrote:
> I had run portupgrade Sunday afternoon to update a few ports and it updated
> a few others that then broke gnome.
>
> I've been working since then to get Gnome back and I'm pretty well stuck.
>
> I deleted every port/package that got mucked up (some had two versions, old
> and new) and reinstalled but the make still chokes from within
> /usr/ports/x11/gnome.
>
> So I thought I'd be real clever, and print out the dependencies for gnome
> and just deal with each one individually. Made some progress
>
> Except now, what I have left chokes in two places.
>
> I cannot make "gnomecore" It always hangs around libgtkxmhtml.so
>
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libgtkxmhtml.so: warning: tmpnam() possibly used unsafely;
> consider using mkstemp()
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libgtkxmhtml.so: undefined reference to `no symbol'
> gmake[3]: *** [gnome-help-browser] Error 1
> gmake[3]: Leaving directory
> `/usr/ports/x11/gnomecore/work/gnome-core-1.4.0.4/help-browser'
> gmake[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> gmake[2]: Leaving directory
> `/usr/ports/x11/gnomecore/work/gnome-core-1.4.0.4/help-browser'
> gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory
> `/usr/ports/x11/gnomecore/work/gnome-core-1.4.0.4'
> gmake: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
>
> Since I cannot make gnomecore, I have 13 other ports I can't make either.
>
> I also have what appears to be 3 programs requiring libGL.so? or at least
> that's where the error appears to come from.
>
> I guess the morale of the story is, if it ain't broke -- don't upgrade or
> fix it!?
>
> How on earth do I get Gnome back? Xwindows sucks without a desktop manager.
>
> I was thinking I'd go ahead and delete every dependacy again and perhaps
> whimp out and use /stand/sysinstall and get the premade packages... I've
> noticed the packages aren't always as up to date as the ports are though.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> gf.
>
>
>
>
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