In message <20021222061008.GA26489@NetBSD.ORG>, "Johnny C. Lam" writes:
>On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 01:20:01PM -0500, Steve Bellovin wrote:
>> On one of my machines, something is confused in pkgsrc land.  Trying to 
>> rebuild some things (today, it was gnome; a few days ago, it was 
>> gabber), I got this message:
>> 
>> /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link cc  -O2 -I/usr/pkg/include -I/usr/X11R6/inclu
>de -Wall -Wunused  -Wl,-R/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -Wl,-R/usr/pkg/lib -L
>/usr/pkg/lib -o bonobo-moniker-gunzip  bonobo-moniker-gunzip.o ../bonobo/libbo
>nobo.la ../bonobo/libbonobox.la -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/pkg/lib -Wl,-R/usr/pkg
>/lib -Wl,-R/usr/X11R6/lib -loaf -lORBitCosNaming -lORBit -lIIOP -lwrap -lORBit
>util -lgnomeprint -lgnomeui -lgdk_imlib -lSM -lICE -lgnome -lgnomesupport -les
>d -lossaudio -laudiofile -lgdk_pixbuf -lgtk -lgdk -lgmodule -lglib -lintl -lXi
> -lXext -lX11 -lart_lgpl -lm -lxml -lz -lfreetype -lintl
>> libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/pkgsrc/devel/bonobo/work/.build
>link/lib/libfreetype.la'
>
>Ah...this looks like another instance where we need to write a fake libtool
>archive for the XFree86-provided libfreetype.* just in case the
>graphics/freetype2 package is also installed on the system.  Could you
>please send-pr this problem?  I'll take responsibility for it.
>

Hmm -- I tried deleting freetype2.  Nothing depended on it, but I still 
can't build bonobo.  (I still have freetype-lib installed, but several 
other packages depend on it, and I really need those and don't want to 
risk their unavailability if I have build problems.)

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
		http://www.wilyhacker.com (2nd edition of "Firewalls" book)