Error building XFree86-Clients

2003-08-14 Thread Patrick O'Reilly
Hi Folks! I have a number of XFree86 Font ports which will not upgrade from 4.2 to 4.3, and in each case the error is as below. I'm afraid the error /usr/libexec/elf/ld: cannot find -lXfont does not mean much to me! Can anyone give a pointer here? snip --- Installing the new version via the

Re: Error building XFree86-Clients

2003-08-14 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 09), Patrick O'Reilly said: On Saturday 09 August 2003 20:50, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Aug 09), Patrick O'Reilly said: I have a number of XFree86 Font ports which will not upgrade from 4.2 to 4.3, and in each case the error is as below. $

Re: Error building XFree86-Clients

2003-08-14 Thread Kent Stewart
On Saturday 09 August 2003 01:13 pm, Patrick O'Reilly wrote: On Saturday 09 August 2003 22:05, Kent Stewart wrote: What you say lines up with what Dan told me to do too. Is this a known issue - ie you MUST do -libraries AFTER -server ??? I'm busy rebuilding libraries now? Yes, it

Re: Error building XFree86-Clients

2003-08-14 Thread Patrick O'Reilly
On Saturday 09 August 2003 21:41, Kent Stewart wrote: You upgraded an old version of -server, which deleted the Xfonts that -libraries just installed. You have to reinstall -libraries to fix the problem. Kent Thanks Kent! What you say lines up with what Dan told me to do too. Is this a

Re: Error building XFree86-Clients

2003-08-14 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 09), Patrick O'Reilly said: I have a number of XFree86 Font ports which will not upgrade from 4.2 to 4.3, and in each case the error is as below. I'm afraid the error /usr/libexec/elf/ld: cannot find -lXfont does not mean much to me! Can anyone give a pointer

Re: Error building XFree86-Clients

2003-08-14 Thread Patrick O'Reilly
On Saturday 09 August 2003 21:20, Stephen Hilton wrote: On Sat, 9 Aug 2003 20:48:23 +0200 Patrick O'Reilly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks! I have a number of XFree86 Font ports which will not upgrade from 4.2 to 4.3, and in each case the error is as below. I'm afraid the error

Re: Error building XFree86-Clients

2003-08-14 Thread Patrick O'Reilly
On Saturday 09 August 2003 22:05, Kent Stewart wrote: What you say lines up with what Dan told me to do too. Is this a known issue - ie you MUST do -libraries AFTER -server ??? I'm busy rebuilding libraries now? Yes, it is a known problem. If you had searched the archives, you would

Re: Error building XFree86-Clients

2003-08-14 Thread Kent Stewart
On Saturday 09 August 2003 12:07 pm, Patrick O'Reilly wrote: On Saturday 09 August 2003 20:50, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Aug 09), Patrick O'Reilly said: I have a number of XFree86 Font ports which will not upgrade from 4.2 to 4.3, and in each case the error is as below. $

Re: Error building XFree86-Clients (Solution)

2003-08-11 Thread Kent Stewart
On Sunday 10 August 2003 06:12 am, Patrick O'Reilly wrote: Hi folks! A Word of thanks to Kent and Dan who took the time to help me figure out my problem. In the end I rebiult XFree86-libraries using portupgrade -f, and thereafter I was able to use portupgrade to upgrade all the

Re: Error building XFree86-Clients (Solution)

2003-08-10 Thread Patrick O'Reilly
Hi folks! A Word of thanks to Kent and Dan who took the time to help me figure out my problem. In the end I rebiult XFree86-libraries using portupgrade -f, and thereafter I was able to use portupgrade to upgrade all the Xfree86-font* ports from 4.2 to 4.3 without any further problems.

Re: Error building XFree86-Clients

2003-08-09 Thread Patrick O'Reilly
On Saturday 09 August 2003 21:39, Dan Nelson wrote: Wait; so you've got XFree86-libraries-4.3.0_5 installed but have no /usr/X11R6/lib/libXfont.a? I guess that might be caused by old freetype or fontconfig packages (they are currently at freetype2-2.1.4_1 and fontconfig-2.2.90_3), but I