Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 01:47:10 +0100 From: John Murphy <sub00@freeode.co.uk> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xfce4 port expat/p5-XML-Parser problem Message-ID: <kgeab0hu4rgelnjb0aggf9kddhmpcc32ju@4ax.com> In-Reply-To: <200405270022.22490.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> References: <k4j9b0lgkv3ki100d95heebcfr22cj23ek@4ax.com> <200405262012.05462.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> <dg0ab096otrs9naf3iu9kgac55j2flkge9@4ax.com> <200405270022.22490.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
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Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> wrote: >However, if you actually meant xfterm4, that belongs to = sysutils/xfce4-utils,=20 /Blush I did indeed. I should be more careful. >so you should try reinstalling that (x11-wm/xfce4 is a so-called = metaport=20 >which exists mainly to facilitate installing a collection of other ports= -=20 >deinstalling and reinstalling it will not change/update any of the ports= =20 >which actually provide the programs/data). Tried de and re installing sysutils/xfce4-utils but it didn't help. >However, sometimes you may find that even after recompiling, a binary = still=20 >references a shared library which doesn't exist anymore. This can happen= if a=20 >different shared library this binary links to is itself linked to the=20 >nonexistent lib. You can find out to what libraries a binary is linked = by=20 >doing ldd /path/to/binary. You can then again find out with ldd which of= =20 >those libraries link to what other libraries, eventually finding the one= =20 >which references the obsolete library, which you can then find the = respective=20 >port for with pkg_info -W and recompile (of course you can also ldd and = grep=20 >your way through /usr/local/lib and /usr/X11R6/lib). That's really informative, thank you. Turns out xfterm4 is a script so = ldd complained. The errors referred to ld-elf.so.1 but ldd that shedded no = light. I hate to admit (after your good advice) to symlinking libexpat.so.4 to libexpat.so.5 again, just to see if it would work, and it did. I expect something will fail at some stage though. --=20 John.
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