library problems

[Florent Thoumie]

Scott Robbins wrote:
> When I mentioned that I had been having trouble with various port
> managing utilities and the git repository, someone suggested that I do
> make index. 
> 
> This seems to have worked on 6.2-PRE-RELEASE.  However, on my
> CURRENT install, something went wrong.  I am not sure when, so I can't
> consider this a bug report.  :)
> 
> At any rate, suddenly, various and sundry applications are looking for
> the libraries, which are there in /usr/X11R6/lib in /usr/local/lib.  
> 
> So far, I've just been doing symlinks as the problem arises, trying to
> remember what I did to make this happen.  
> 
> Has anyone run into this, and do they have any idea how I cleverly
> managed to break something that was running quite well?  
> 
> This, of course, is the trouble with playing.  One doesn't pay close
> attention to what they're doing.  I think the problem actually began
> when I did the make index--it was looking for a library that was needed.  
> 
> I then played around trying to upgrade various things--brilliantly not
> bothering to keep track of what I was doing.  
> 
> At any rate, not that my stupidity deserves it, but if someone has any
> ideas, I'd be grateful.  I'd love to know how I did this.  
> 
> I want to make sure that it's clear that after the original upgrade to
> xorg-7.1 everything was working, there were no missing library errors
> like this. 

Making INDEX shouldn't require any libraries in /usr/local/lib or
/usr/X11R6/lib. If you happen to try it again, please keep track of the
error messages.

Thanks for your testing.

-- 
Florent Thoumie
flz at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Committer

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