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Subject: Re: portupgrade error: cannot find -lXfont
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Peter Radcliffe wrote:
> James Long <james_mapson@umpquanet.com> probably said:
> 
>>/usr/libexec/elf/ld: cannot find -lXfont
> 
> 
> Reinstall your XFree86-libraries package, even if you have the most
> recent version (portupgrade -f will do this for you).
> 
> I hit this last week.

So did I some time ago. Reason: my system ran out of diskspace while
installing the XFree86-libraries port. Compiling and installing the
XFree86 stuff needs quite some diskspace.
I had to relink the work directory to another bigger partition, to
finish this compile successfully.

Cheers,
Rob.