avahi-app port build fails on one system, not other

[Steven Friedrich]

On Saturday 18 December 2010 6:23:30 pm Jud wrote:
> Apologies for top-post.
> 
> Because many other ports depend on icu, it might be preferable to update
> everything at the same time rather than piecemeal:
> 
> # portupgrade -rf icu-\*
> 
> Caution: This'll take a while.
> 
> Jud
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On Dec 18, 2010, at 5:18 PM, Steven Friedrich <FreeBSD at insightbb.com> wrote:
> > On Friday 17 December 2010 6:44:01 pm Marco Beishuizen wrote:
> >> On Fri, 17 Dec 2010, Steven Friedrich wrote:
> >>> I even tried portupgrade -fR avahi-app.
> >>> 
> >>> Here's the last of the log:
> >>> 
> >>> ...
> >>> /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libicui18n.so.38" not found,
> >>> required by "libavahi-glib.so.1"
> >>> ...
> >> 
> >> I'm having this too. I think this happens because the portupgrade of
> >> devel/icu installs a new version of libicui18n (libicui18n.so.46) and
> >> deletes the old one (so.38). Lots of ports still need the old version
> >> like libavahi-app.
> >> 
> >> I'll try to make a symlink so.38 to so.46 and see what happens.
> >> 
> >> Regards,
> >> Marco
> > 
> > I tried portupgrade -fR avahi-app and several others ports.
> > 
> > Eventuall, out of frustration I pkg_deinstall -f avahi-app\* and then
> > portupgrade -n avahi-app was successful.
> > 
> > I don't know why, but it worked.
> 
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I had been updating icu with protupgrade -fr icu, but ahavi-app failed to 
build.  I went through trying to update avahi-app for a couple days to no 
avail.  I finally deinstalled and reinstalled. ANd it worked.

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