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Date:      23 Feb 2003 10:59:40 -0500
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Thanos Tsouanas <thief_grr@yahoo.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD User Questions List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ld problems with Xft library
Message-ID:  <1046015980.43287.8.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030223120430.61158.qmail@web13508.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20030223120430.61158.qmail@web13508.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 07:04, Thanos Tsouanas wrote:
> Hello everyone!
>=20
> I have the current Xft port installed and when i pkg_deleted (-f) xscreen=
saver and gkrellm2 so as
> to reinstall the new versions from the port, i got an error while make, c=
omplaining about
> /usr/libexec/ld not being able to find -lXft2
>=20
> I tried deinstalling and reinstalling Xft2 but i still have the same prob=
lem.
>=20
> Now i cannot install anything that uses Xft :(
>=20
> Any ideas?
> I'm running freebsd4.7 , with the ports tree being cvsup'ed to the 'curre=
nt' version.

You missed my HEADS UP.  In order to properly recover after the recent
Xft upgrade, you need to do a portupgrade -rf Xft.  Yes, this takes an
exceptionally long time, but things like this are rare, and it's really
the only way to get back on track and stay there.

Joe

>=20
> Thanks in advance.
>=20
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