Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 16:20:18 +0100 From: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@coosemans.org> To: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to Find Why Port "X" Is Installed? Message-ID: <20140227162018.3314629c@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> In-Reply-To: <BLU0-SMTP633F512AE638514255E032B3830@phx.gbl> References: <BLU0-SMTP633F512AE638514255E032B3830@phx.gbl>
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On Thu, 27 Feb 2014 07:06:46 -0800 Drew Tomlinson wrote: > I'm using FBSD 10 and trying to work through the things I broke after > running 'make delete-old-libs' as suggested in the handbook. Ultimately > I just rebuilt all ports with 'portupgrade -f "*" '. Unfortunately, I > had an issue with databases/db42 and then other issues because it failed. > > I tried running it again and saw messages about it being deprecated. > Then it failed with this line: > > /usr/bin/ld: .libs/cxx_db.o: relocation R_X86_64_32S against `_ZTV2Db' > can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC > .libs/cxx_db.o: could not read symbols: Bad value > c++: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see > invocation) > *** [libdb_cxx-4.2.la] Error code 1 > > So I don't know what that is all about but it led me to wonder why > databases/db42 is on my system in the first place. If I know what port > pulled it in, then maybe I can rebuild that port to use a newer version > of this that's not deprecated. I've read the new pkg man page but can't > figure out how to get it to tell me what pulled databases/db42 in. pkg info -rx db42 You can read more about this in pkg-info(8) or with "pkg help info".
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