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Date:      Fri, 7 Jan 2000 06:41:49 -0500 (EST)
From:      Omachonu Ogali <oogali@intranova.net>
To:        cjclark@home.com
Cc:        Arcady Genkin <a.genkin@utoronto.ca>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Insanity with ports dependencies
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001070640470.14133-100000@hydrant.intranova.net>
In-Reply-To: <200001070158.UAA21225@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>

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Also check your /var/db/pkg/ directory to see if those packages exist
after/before being compiled.

Omachonu Ogali
Intranova Networking Group

On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Crist J. Clark wrote:

> Arcady Genkin wrote,
> > Hi all:
> > 
> > I installed 3.4-R only yesterday. I made a minimal installation
> > and then compiled a whole bunch of programs from ports.
> > 
> > Today it seems that there's something wrong with dependencies.
> > 
> > Whenever I try to install a new port, it checks for a package
> > that it depends on, and then mistakenly thinks that that package
> > is not installed. 8-/
> > 
> > Right now I'm recompiling XFree (how much do I regret typing that
> > "make clean" yesterday!!!) because netscape would not install, 
> > reporting a missing XR11.6 library.
> > 
> > Now I wanted to compile sane. Sure enough... missing gtk-1.2.6...
> > missing glib12.3.
> > 
> > ,----[ Snippet from install output ]
> > | ===>  Extracting for sane-1.0.1
> > | >> Checksum OK for sane-1.0.1.tar.gz.
> > | ===>   sane-1.0.1 depends on executable: gmake - found
> > | ===>   sane-1.0.1 depends on shared library: gtk12.2 - not found
> > | ===>    Verifying install for gtk12.2 in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/gtk12
> > | ===>  Extracting for gtk-1.2.6
> > | >> Checksum OK for gtk+-1.2.6.tar.gz.
> > | ===>   gtk-1.2.6 depends on executable: libtool - found
> > | ===>   gtk-1.2.6 depends on shared library: glib12.3 - not found
> > | ===>    Verifying install for glib12.3 in /usr/ports/devel/glib12
> > | ===>  Installing for glib-1.2.6
> > | ===>  glib-1.2.6 is already installed - perhaps an older version?
> > |       If so, you may wish to ``make deinstall'' and install
> > |       this port again by ``make reinstall'' to upgrade it properly.
> > |       If you really wish to overwrite the old port of glib-1.2.6
> > |       without deleting it first, set the variable "FORCE_PKG_REGISTER"
> > |       in your environment or the "make install" command line.
> > `----
> > 
> > While all of those packages already are installed:
> > 
> > ,----[ /usr/sbin/pkg_info | egrep 'gtk|glib' ]
> > | glib-1.2.6          Some useful routines of C programming
> > | gtk---1.0.3         C++ wrapper for gtk, a x11 graphics library
> > | gtk-1.2.6           General Toolkit for X11 GUI 
> > `----
> > 
> > What am I to do?
> 
> The checks that are failing are for the shared libs. Are they really
> there? Do a,
> 
> % ls -l /usr/local/lib/lib*.so*
> 
> To see what you have.
> -- 
> Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com
> 
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