Solved: Error building XFree86 from ports

Kent Stewart kstewart at owt.com
Fri Apr 16 07:11:37 PDT 2004


On Friday 16 April 2004 07:02 am, Mark Linimon wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Doug Cook wrote:
> > I'm not entirely certain how I ended up with both on my system, but
> > I did, and fairly recently, too.
>
> Someone had recently introduced (by mistake) a dependency on 'imake'
> rather than 'imake-4' in a port.  It went uncaught for a period of
> time until I tried to verify that I really could nuke 'imake' ...
> and found that I couldn't.
>
> So, systems that installed whatever port that was, during that
> window, would have wound up with both.

pkg_info -R imake 

Will show what ports depend on which version of imake.

Kent

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