Upgrading netpbm

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 04:10:58PM +0700, Roger Merritt wrote:

> >Clean out your old installed cruft first..either blow away /usr/local
> >and /usr/X11R6 completely, or use portupgrade to manage your ports and
> >use the example in the pkg_which manpage to locate stale installed
> >files that should be removed.
> 
> Errmmm. I don't think I'm understanding you correctly. I wouldn't really 
> mind nuking everything under /usr/X11R6, because I did it when I changed 
> from XFree86-3 to -4, but it would take a lot of time to get things back 
> the way I like them, and I'd be really scared to zap everything under 
> /usr/local.
> 
> I'm already using portupgrade -- the problem looks to me like a header file 
> missing from the port tarball. When I had a similar problem trying to 
> install some perl module ports, it was solved by installing perl 5.6.1 from 
> the ports, so I was hoping someone would point me to some dependency that 
> I'm missing in this case.

I suggested cleaning out old files because it's possible for old stale
files that are not associated to any package to confuse port builds.
netpbm builds correctly on a clean system.

Kris
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