Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 23:54:25 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: FreeBSD-questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: wrestling with b*rked package/ports collection Message-ID: <200403302354.25891.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <BB214ED4-82E5-11D8-802A-000A95BBCCF8@mac.com> References: <BB214ED4-82E5-11D8-802A-000A95BBCCF8@mac.com>
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On Tuesday 30 March 2004 11:33 pm, paul beard wrote: > 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? On both of them, you needed to portupgrade -rf. Now, I think your links are broken. You might try pkgdb -F can connect the links to the latest version. Then do the forced portupgrade. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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