portupgrade -Rra fails on 4.8-RELEASE

[Ben Laurie]

Kent Stewart wrote:

> 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.

BTW, if anyone did any deinstalling it was portupgrade, so I'm not sure
why you think portupgrade didn't do it?

Cheers,

Ben.

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