Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 02:32:54 +0100 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gettext upgrade problems Message-ID: <20070326023254.1b6accb2@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <200703251046.06491.derrick@uniquestrength.net> References: <200703251046.06491.derrick@uniquestrength.net>
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On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 10:46:06 -0400 Dantavious <derrick@uniquestrength.net> wrote: > Hi, > As a result of the upgrade to gettext-0.16.1, I am rebuilding ports > on a desktop machine. I received an error with the port OpenEXR > after hours of rebuilding the ports. My first question is what caused > the OpenEXR port to fail and most importantly do I have to restart > building all the ports over because of this failure. Initial > portmaster command was > > portmaster -Gv -B -u -d -r gettext What I would suggest you do is pkg_delete gettext, and do a pkg_add of the old version (you might need to use a release branch, if you're tracking stable), and then use *portupgrade* to rebuild just gettext. This wont solve your build problem, but it it will prevent your system becoming flakey and then failing to boot into a working desktop, as happened to me. Portupgrade, unlike portmaster, preserves a copy of old libraries, so software build against the old version will continue to work.
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