unintelligible questions from pkgdb -F [ part of 5.2 portupgrade hairball ]

[Jay Moore]

On Tuesday 06 April 2004 04:39 am, Matthew Seaman wrote:

> Now, in order to solve the pkgdb problem you have, you can either:
>
---- << snip option 1 >>----
>
> - or -
>
>     * Quit out of pkgdb(1) without changing anything, and force an
>       install of gtk20 without using any of the pkgtools stuff:
>
>         # cd /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/gtk20
>         # make install

Here's the result of that:

# cd /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/gtk20
# make install

<snip note re "experimental patch">

===>  Vulnerability check disabled
===>  Extracting for gtk-2.2.4_2
>> Checksum OK for gnome2/gtk+-2.2.4.tar.bz2.

... blah, blah, blah... <snipped>

-- but it ended badly:

/bin/sh ../../mkinstalldirs /usr/X11R6/etc/gtk-2.0
../../gtk/gtk-query-immodules-2.0 > /usr/X11R6/etc/gtk-2.0/gtk.immodules
Cannot load module /usr/X11R6/lib/gtk-2.0/2.2.0/immodules/im-gucharmap.so: 
Shared object "libintl.so.5" not found
/usr/X11R6/lib/gtk-2.0/2.2.0/immodules/im-gucharmap.so does not export GTK+ IM 
module API: Shared object "libintl.so.5" not found
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/gtk20/work/gtk+-2.2.4/modules/input.
*** Error code 1

<snip redundant error msgs>

Stop in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/gtk20.

>       Then re-run pkgdb(1), and it will be able to resolve that gtk
>       dependency automatically.

I know you feel like you're trying to tell a blind man how to drive, but did I 
miss something?

Thanks,
Jay