Portupgrade won't upgrade

[Michael Abbott]

On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, Spadge wrote:
> Looks like it's trying to reinstall misc/ldconfig_compat as part of a 
> dependency sweep, and failing, which in turn is failing the upgrade of 
> portupgrade.

Looks like that, but ldconfig_compat seems quite happy:  I'm guessing 
something is fractured in the current port.  Or else, I've missed some bit 
of black magic that I've not yet found documented...

> Try reinstalling misc/ldconfig manually and then portupgrading portupgrade.

> Michael Abbott wrote:
>> I've tried deinstalling and reinstalling the ldconfig_compat port, as 
>> suggested, but that makes no difference.

^ this.

I ran
 	# cd \usr\ports\misc\ldconfig_compat
 	# make deinstall
 	# make install
which ran just fine without complaint.