xorg upgrade advice

W. D. WD at US-Webmasters.com
Sat Nov 13 18:51:40 GMT 2004


At 12:15 11/13/2004, Chuck Tuffli wrote:
>i'm in the process of upgrading a 4.7 system from Xfree86 to xorg from
>ports and am running into some problems. the upgrade instructions
>seemed pretty simple
>
>pkg_delete -f /var/db/pkg/imake-4* /var/db/pkg/XFree86-*
>cd /usr/ports/x11/xorg && make install
>pkgdb -F
>
>but the make fails in xorg-libraries when trying to install
>expat-1.95.8 because expat-1.95.5 is already installed. looking back
>through the build log, there is also a warning about upgrading from
>libtool13 to libtool15.
>
>for an older system like this, are there some additional steps others
>have found necessary/useful?

I had the same problems with libtool and expat.  This might
help you:
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http://www.Google.com/search?q=make+install+fails+FreeBSD

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