[kde-freebsd] Re: kde4 fails to start after update.

[Raphael Kubo da Costa]

On Thursday 11 November 2010 13:34:33 Mike Barnard wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Raphael Kubo da Costa 
<kubito at gmail.com>wrote:
> > > If you're using 8-STABLE, you need to remove the xz port and use xz
> > > from base, which has had a library bump too; otherwise, the same
> > > applies to
> > 
> > the
> > 
> > > xz port.
> 
> Yes I am using 8-STABLE. xz from stable was not there... for some reason,
> after the upgrade, all its libraries were trashed (I am puzzled as to why
> that would happen, may be I did something wrong... I'll trace everything I
> did for the upgrade and look for anything wrong I may have done). I have
> reinstalled xz from ports, its faster than rebuilding the kernel, and
> symlinked liblzma.so.0 to liblzma.s0.5 and all seems to be good...
> 
> > (and then recompile kdelibs4)
> 
> after the symlinks were done, I rebooted and KDE loaded... this is a bad
> hack to get it to work, but I needed this up ASAP. I'll get it rectified
> properly later.

Hmm, if you're using a reasonably recent 8-STABLE, you shouldn't even be able 
to build xz from ports -- take a look at the Makefile, it refuses to build 
with 9-CURRENT or a sufficiently recent 8-STABLE.