On Sat, 09 Jun 2012 20:46:49 +0000, Walter Hurry wrote: > On Sat, 09 Jun 2012 18:12:25 +0100, Dave Morgan wrote: > >> On 09/06/12 at 04:41P, Walter Hurry wrote: >>> FreeBSD 9 on x86_64. >>> >>> I am in the process of doing a portupgrade on libreoffice (from 3.4.4 >>> to 3.5.2.5). During the build it has (so far) errored out 4 times, in >>> the following modules: >>> >>> vcl framework sfx2 tail_build >>> >>> Each time, it told me to go into the subdirectory, do a gmake clean >>> and a gmake -r there, then return to the top level and rerun make. >>> >>> This I duly did, but to my surprise, each time I ran the gmake -r, it >>> completed successfully. >>> >>> When the top-level make finally succeeds, I intend simply to rerun the >>> portupgrade, on the theory that seeing everything already made, it >>> will just do the uninstall/reinstall, sort out the dependencies and so >>> forth. >>> >>> Q1) Is this a sensible approach? >>> >>> Q2) Has anyone else seen this? What is going on? >> >> There is a thread in the forums which recommends removing boost-libs >> and boost-jam, building libreoffice then reinstalling them. >> >> I did this and it worked for me. > > Thanks. I'll try that and report back.
Yes, that did the trick. It zoomed through! Very many thanks. I'll need to keep an eye on the forum, methinks. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"