avahi-app port build fails on one system, not other

[Steven Friedrich]

On Friday 17 December 2010 6:44:01 pm Marco Beishuizen wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Dec 2010, Steven Friedrich wrote:
> > I even tried portupgrade -fR avahi-app.
> > 
> > Here's the last of the log:
> > 
> > ...
> > /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libicui18n.so.38" not found,
> > required by "libavahi-glib.so.1"
> > ...
> 
> I'm having this too. I think this happens because the portupgrade of
> devel/icu installs a new version of libicui18n (libicui18n.so.46) and
> deletes the old one (so.38). Lots of ports still need the old version like
> libavahi-app.
> 
> I'll try to make a symlink so.38 to so.46 and see what happens.
> 
> Regards,
> Marco

I tried portupgrade -fR avahi-app and several others ports.

Eventuall, out of frustration I pkg_deinstall -f avahi-app\* and then 
portupgrade -n avahi-app was successful.

I don't know why, but it worked.

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