Stale files in /usr/X11/bin ?

[Yury Tarasievich]

walt wrote:
The reason I had trouble updating the new kdebase3 port is
because of two old files, xfontconfig-config and freetype-config,
which were left over from I-dunno-where.
The configure script for kdebase was using those old config
files to mis-configure the new kde environment.
<...>

Precisely the reason I'm building from the "official" ports as seldom as 
possible.

BTW, is there any standard method to force linking against specific 
revision of shared lib, so one could generally link against lib.so, 
being symlink to lib.so.x, vs. lib.so.x itself?

--regards