Trashed my machine via ports

Jens Rehsack rehsack at liwing.de
Fri Oct 3 09:37:32 PDT 2003


Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> On Fri, 03 Oct 2003 10:22:57 +0000, Jens Rehsack <rehsack at liwing.de> wrote:
> 
>> Clint Olsen wrote:
>>
>>> I was trying to install a new version of glib (glib20), and somehow
>>> libintl.so.4 got lost in the shuffle:
>>>
>>> ===>  Building for glib-2.2.3
>>> /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libintl.so.1" not found
>>> *** Error code 1
>>>
>>> Stop in /usr/ports/devel/glib20.
>>>
>>> Any ideas on how to fix this?
>>
>>
>> Try upgrading devel/gettext first :-)
> 
> 
> It is how he get this error, because he has upgraded the gettext.. ;-)
> 
>> Maybe a pkgdb -F from sysutils/portupgrade helps you, too.
> 
> 
> Nope, he needs to rebuild all apps that are depend on gettext. Use 
> portupgrade to do that.

If you see at the rest of the thread (subject changed), he had
neither installed nor used portupgrade, so pkgdb -F is mandatory
before he can continue upgrading.

Jens



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