make -D recent problem?

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Tue, 01 May 2007 20:56:59 -0500, Garrett Cooper  
<youshi10 at u.washington.edu> wrote:

> Kris Kennaway wrote:
>> On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 09:12:29PM -0300, JoaoBR wrote:
>>
>>> I'm not sure what you want to hear but to clarify
>>  What I meant was: when you are trying to report an error you usually
>> need to show exactly what is going wrong, because just describing it
>> vaguely does not often help, because we have to try and guess what you
>> mean.
>>
>>> make -DFORCE_PKG_REGISTER install should[?] override the already  
>>> installed port version and update the pkg database right? (my  
>>> understandings and so it ever was if I am no t confused)
>>  It is a knob used by the port framework to override the check for an
>> existing installation of the package.  It is almost never a good idea
>> to use it unless you know what you're doing, because it will corrupt
>> your package database, as you found out:
>>
>>> so today any port I did make -D FORCE... forced me to to pkgdb -F  
>>> afterwards because I got two ports with a different version
>>  Now, as for your underlying problem:
>>
>>> ocairo-1.0 -lXcursor -lXfixes -lcairo -lpangoft2-1.0 -lfontconfig  
>>> -lfreetype -lz -lpango-1.0 -lm -lXrender -lX11 -lXext -lgconf-2  
>>> -lgnome-2 -lpopt -lbonobo-2 -lbonobo-activation -lgmodule-2.0  
>>> -lORBit-2 -lgthread-2.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -liconv   -pthread  
>>> -lldap -llber  -L/usr/local/lib -lsoup-2.2 -lglib-2.0 -liconv -lxml2  
>>> -lgnutls
>>> grep: /usr/X11R6/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.la: No such file or directory
>>> sed: /usr/X11R6/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.la: No such file or directory
>>> gnome-libtool: link: `/usr/X11R6/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.la' is not a valid  
>>> libtool
>>  I guess one of those libraries needs to be rebuilt.
>>  grep -r /usr/X11R6/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.la /usr/local/lib /usr/X11R6/lib
>>  should show you the files that need to be rebuilt.  pkg_which will
>> help you to figure out which port they belong to.
>>  Kris
>
> My guess is gtk2 or linux-gtk2, and if this persists you might want to  
> rebuild libtool and reinstall it.

It is gtk20, the prefix has been changed back in Oct 2006. So... He needs  
to follow in the /usr/ports/UPDATING (20061014).

Cheers,
Mezz

> -Garrett


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