portupgrade -Rra fails on 4.8-RELEASE

[Kent Stewart]

On Wednesday 02 July 2003 05:04 am, Ben Laurie wrote:
> with cvsupped ports tree as of just now.
>
> Building for XFree86-clients-4.3.0_2
> making all in lib/lbxutil/lbx_zlib...
> making all in lib/lbxutil/delta...
> making all in lib/lbxutil/image...
> making all in programs/appres...
> making all in programs/bdftopcf...
> rm -f bdftopcf
> cc -o bdftopcf -L/usr/X11R6/lib/ -ansi -Dasm=__asm -Wall -Wpointer-arith
> -Wundef     -L/usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4-clients/work/xc/exports/lib
> bdftopcf.o -lXfont -lfntstubs  -L/usr/X11R6/lib  -lz -lm
> -Wl,-rpath,/usr/X11R6/lib
> /usr/libexec/elf/ld: cannot find -lXfont
> *** Error code 1
>
> the reason? portupgrade appears to have blown away libXfont.a:
>
> -su-2.05b# locate Xfont
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libXfont.a
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libXfont.so
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libXfont.so.1
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libXfontcache.a
> -su-2.05b# ls -l /usr/X11R6/lib/libXfont.a
> ls: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXfont.a: No such file or directory
>
> I guess I can install it by hand (if I can figure out where it comes
> from), but surely this shouldn't happen?

Portupgrade didn't do it. You had an old version of XFree86-server and 
deinstalling it deleted the font. You have to reinstall XFree86-libraries to 
reinstall the fonts.

Kent

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