Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 07:40:15 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: "Patrick O'Reilly" <bsd@perimeter.co.za>, Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Error building XFree86-Clients (Solution) Message-ID: <200308100740.15537.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <200308101512.59194.bsd@perimeter.co.za> References: <200308092048.23949.bsd@perimeter.co.za> <200308091305.18490.kstewart@owt.com> <200308101512.59194.bsd@perimeter.co.za>
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On Sunday 10 August 2003 06:12 am, Patrick O'Reilly wrote: > Hi folks! > > A Word of thanks to Kent and Dan who took the time to help me figure > out my problem. > > In the end I rebiult XFree86-libraries using portupgrade -f, and > thereafter I was able to use portupgrade to upgrade all the > Xfree86-font* ports from 4.2 to 4.3 without any further problems. > > Apparently there was a specific issue somewhere between 4.2 and 4.3 > where the installation of the Xfree86-server at version 4.3 would > remove a component of XFree86-libraries which is required by the > Xfree86-font* ports. So, the sequence to follow is this: > > 1) upgrade -server to 4.3 > 2) upgrade -libraries to 4.3 > 3) upgrade -font* to 4.3 > > I had unwittingly done (2) before (1). This is still not right because -libraries is a dependancy for -server. You have to build -libraries before you build -server. What you needed to do is delete -server before you built -libraries. Then, when you build -server, it won't delete Xfonts. Kent > > Thanks again to the more knowledgable folks who take the time to > answer questions on this list! -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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