From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Jun 17 3: 6:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from mrelay.jrc.it (mrelay.jrc.it [139.191.1.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC3901544F for ; Thu, 17 Jun 1999 03:06:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nick.hibma@jrc.it) Received: from elect8 (elect8.jrc.it [139.191.71.152]) by mrelay.jrc.it (LMC5692) with SMTP id MAA09759; Thu, 17 Jun 1999 12:06:11 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 12:06:10 +0200 (MET DST) From: Nick Hibma X-Sender: n_hibma@elect8 Reply-To: Nick Hibma To: Robert Watson Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X11 dependency in ports collection following X11 install with sysinstall In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Isn't the hints file rebuilt at boot in /etc/rc? Or does it just keep adding hints to the file? Nick On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Robert Watson wrote: > > 3.2-RELEASE > > Instructions to reproduce: > > 1) install FreeBSD 3.2 sans X11 > 2) reboot, now install X11 distribution using /stand/sysinstall > 3) Now attempt to build something depending on X11 (say, tk81) > > The dependency check on X11 will fail because sysinstall did not run > ldconfig to pick up library changes. The result is that the port will > attempt to compile and install X11. Most packages automatically rerun > ldconfig when they install; perhaps distributions should do the same? > > Thanks, > > > Robert N M Watson > > robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ > PGP key fingerprint: AF B5 5F FF A6 4A 79 37 ED 5F 55 E9 58 04 6A B1 > > Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ > TIS Labs at Network Associates, Inc. http://www.tis.com/ > Safeport Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message > > -- ISIS/STA, T.P.270, Joint Research Centre, 21020 Ispra, Italy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message