FreeBSD/ppc troubles and old files - safe to remove?

[Torfinn Ingolfsen]

On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 11:57:07 +0100
Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen at broadpark.no> wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 12:48:13 -0800
> Peter Grehan <grehan at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> >   Should be: I would imagine they are left there by the binary
> > upgrade for backwards-compatibility.
> 
> Ok, I'll see if it makes a difference.

It certainly did make a difference. After removing those files, I found
out this: for some reason I don't know, both perl and gmake wanted
older versions of  libraries (the files that I had removed). So I did a
'portupgrade -f gmake' and 'portupgrade -f perl',and that seems to have
fixed things. I have installed the icu port without problems, and
portupgraded gmake and a whole lot of other ports, without a panic.
Currently portupgrading the xfce4* ports. If all goes well, there will
be another message from me in a day or two (or three, depending on how
long time it takes).
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Torfinn