Error compiling KDE 3

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On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 20:08:26 -0500
Andrew Gould <andrewlylegould at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Jerry<gesbbb at yahoo.com> wrote:

> > cd /usr/ports/security/gnutls
> > make deinstall && make reinstall && make distclean
> > cd -
> > make install
> >
> > --
> > Jerry
> > gesbbb at yahoo.com
> >
> 
> The package list may have changed between version 2.6.4 and 2.8.3.  I
> would recommend replacing "make deinstall", above, with:
> 
> pkg_delete gnutls-2.6.4

There's no significant difference between "make deinstall" and
pkg_delete - the last time I checked there was only one port that
didn't use the default "make deinstall" target, which calls 
"pkg_delete -f".

Usually this kind of thing happens because files moved between
ports, and the best thing is to remove all of the affected ports before
upgrading. Normally there's an UPDATING entry advising this. 

The FORCE_PKG_REGISTER method is a bit of cludge, but I gather it also
works for this kind of build problem. I guess it allows a repeat install
when a package has lost files due to a transient conflict.