[SOLVED] multimedia/x264 build failure, linker error

[Warren Block]

On Tue, 25 Nov 2014, Christian Weisgerber wrote:

> On 2014-11-25, Andrew Berg <aberg010 at my.hennepintech.edu> wrote:
> 
> > As I have stated already in this thread, I am trying to get an UPDATING entry
> > committed:
> >
> >   x264 was split into the application and its library. If an application
> >   that uses libx264 is updated before x264 itself, multimedia/libx264 will
> >   conflict with the old x264 package.
> >
> >   Delete the existing x264:
> >   # pkg delete x264
> 
> You can't.  This will also require deleting all installed ports
> that depend on x264...

It was pointed out to me a couple of days ago that 'pkg delete -f' 
will not delete dependencies.  I have only tried it with -n so far.