I've been running FreeBSD on a laptop at work. Couple days ago I installed cadaver out of ports, and in the process it upgraded expat. X promptly stopped working. So I ran
portupgrade -rf textproc/expat2
and it compiled away for a full day.
Then X worked, but had no text. None. Anywhere. Whee. Apparently gtk had failed to upgrade due to the lack of the
XML::Parsermodule. So I installed that and figured I better do the same thing, so I'm running
portupgrade -rf x11-toolkits/gtk20
And it's still compiling now. I like FreeBSD a lot, but man, I've been compiling for about 3 days now (nights off.)
Cool. Now libxslt is failing on the version of libxml that's installed. I realize I've probably done something entirely clueless here, but linux is looking better and better here to me. It at least occasionally lets me use the machine.
Posted by jbm at May 25, 2004 03:00 PM | TrackBack