From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 30 23:33:43 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D282D16A4CE for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 23:33:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB09743D1D for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 23:33:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paulbeard@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin01-en2 [10.13.10.146]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id i2V7Xhi1028119 for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 23:33:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.8] (c-24-18-244-9.client.comcast.net [24.18.244.9]) (authenticated bits=0) by mac.com (Xserve/smtpin01/MantshX 3.0) with ESMTP id i2V7Xggt004242 for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 23:33:42 -0800 (PST) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v613) To: FreeBSD-questions Message-Id: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=sha1; boundary=Apple-Mail-36--667994447; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature" From: paul beard Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 23:33:40 -0800 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.613) X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: wrestling with b*rked package/ports collection X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 07:33:44 -0000 --Apple-Mail-36--667994447 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed I seem to be in a loop where expat and gettext will somehow not install in such a way as to serve as valid dependencies. I have rebuilt either directly or as part of building something else countless times, as well as installing from a package. For whatever reason, expat seems to be missing something: Error: shared library "expat.5" does not exist portupgrade -f, installing from source, installing from a package: all seem to fail. And since it and/or gettext are core dependencies for everything else, it seems, there's not much progress being made. Any other sage advice? -- Paul Beard paulbeard [at] mac.com --Apple-Mail-36--667994447--