broken ports

[David Collins]

Thank you for your input. I feel like this problem is too far over my
head to be able to give adequate enough debugging.

I am not against any alternative methods of resolving this (even
removing and reinstalling ports) rather than fixing, I just don't want
to have to jump into sysinstall or reinstall because i believe that is
a soluion.

David

On 09/02/2009, Frank Shute <frank at shute.org.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 07:52:58PM +0000, David Collins wrote:
>>
>> > Then you should be able to build rtorrent.
>> >
>> > Then what I'd do is deinstall gcc42:
>> >
>> > # pkg_deinstall -f gcc-4.2.5_20080702
>> >
>> > Comment out the CC line in /etc/make.conf & run ldconfig:
>> >
>> > # /etc/rc.d/ldconfig start
>> >
>> > and hopefully your system is then back to normal.
>>
>> I tried all this and rtorrent would still not install, with the same
>> error at configure. I was however able to pkg_deinstall the gcc it
>> installed. That didn't solve any problems though.
>>
>> I feel that it might be easier to focus on the following compiling
>> problem that still exists:
>>
>> viper:~$ gcc -o hello hello.c
>> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgcc_s
>
> What this is telling you is the linker, ld(1), can't find the gcc_s
> library. ldconfig(8) tells ld where to look.
>
> What does:
>
> $ ldconfig -r | grep gcc_s
>
> tell you now that you've removed that compiler? You should get
> something like:
>
> $ ldconfig -r | grep gcc_s
>         30:-lgcc_s.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
>
> i.e. It's looking in the system libs.
>
> If it still tells you that the lib is under /usr/local/lib, then
> there's your problem & you have to regenerate a fresh hints file, I
> think.
>
> The problem is that I've never (IIRC) installed a compiler from
> ports & I don't know how it screws with the compiler toolchain & hence
> how to put it right. Hence, I've cc'd this to hackers@ in the hope that
> someone who is more familiar with the toolchain can give advice.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> --
>
>  Frank
>
>
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>
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