Hi Ralf, Thanks for your reply. I must admit that I'm not usually a programmer, so I'm not sure I understand all of your answer. /usr/bin/objformat does still exist. If I run run it without any parameteres, it returns a segfault, while the "test" statment completed without any problems or output. My needs are just to be able to install/update ports, and I tried with x11-drivers/xorg-drivers, which gave the usual error. I don't know where to set the proposed variables. And especially if it should be a global solution. Cheers, Jon > Hello Jon, > > * Jon Theil Nielsen wrote on Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 11:50:39PM CEST: > > I have made a major oops and deleted some basic files from my system > (FreeBSD 7.0-Current). After that I'm in big troubles, sinces almost > all compilations will end up in an error message like "gnome-libtool: link: > unknown library version type `freebsd-' Does /usr/bin/objformat still exist? If yes, can it be run? > Fatal configuration error." > When I run the libtool --configure command, it states # Library > versioning type. > version_type=freebsd- > which should, I guess, be version_type=freebsd-elf Any clues how I can > fix this? Hmm, the configure macros that come with current libtool do assume freebsd-elf by default, if `test -x /usr/bin/objformat' fails. If you can fix that, a rerun of configure should fix the libtool script. Or you could manually set version_type=freebsd-elf build_libtool_need_lc=no in the libtool script as a workaround, once near the beginning of the script and once for each non-C tag near the end of the file. Hope that helps. Cheers, Ralf
