Re: Problems building firebird on 4.9-stable

From: Kris Kennaway (kris_at_obsecurity.org)
Date: 10/30/03

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    On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 12:36:12AM +0100, Norbert Koch wrote:
    > Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> writes:
    >
    > Hi Kris,
    >
    > > The dependencies might be installed, but are they *all* up-to-date?
    > > You typically cannot build new versions of software with old
    > > dependencies. Use portupgrade to upgrade your ports.
    >
    > I've done a 'portupgrade -frR firebird' which leads to the same
    > result. Should I use other options?

    No, that's okay.

    Follow the example in the pkg_which(1) manpage to locate stale files
    in /usr/X11R6 and /usr/local. It is possible that you have old files
    lying around (e.g. from an incorrect port upgrade, or a port's broken
    pkg-plist), that are confusing the firebird build.

    Kris

    
    



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