Error building XFree86-Clients
Patrick O'Reilly
bsd at perimeter.co.za
Sat Aug 9 12:34:03 PDT 2003
On Saturday 09 August 2003 21:20, Stephen Hilton wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Aug 2003 20:48:23 +0200
>
> "Patrick O'Reilly" <bsd at perimeter.co.za> wrote:
> > Hi Folks!
> >
> > I have a number of XFree86 Font ports which will not upgrade from 4.2 to
> > 4.3, and in each case the error is as below.
> >
> > I'm afraid the error "/usr/libexec/elf/ld: cannot find -lXfont" does not
> > mean much to me!
> >
> > Can anyone give a pointer here?
>
> Patrick,
>
> Install portupgrade from ports and use that to upgrade. It
> really is the *best* IMHO way to get around these kind of
> problems.
>
> Regards,
>
> Stephen Hilton
> nospam at hiltonbsd.com
Hi Stephen - thanks for your response too.
I do use portupgrade actually. This is probably why I am now so lost, because
usually everything just works so easily.
I've tried these upgrades with and without -r and -R, all to no avail. The
only option I have NOT tried is to manually de-install the ports, and then
re-install them. But that would seem pointless as this is basically what
portupgrade does for you.
Hurumph !
Might there be any merit in portupgrade -f on the libraries?
--
Regards,
Patrick O'Reilly.
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