From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 31 14:39:22 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 4C6B516A4CE for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 14:39:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.owt.com (smtp.owt.com [204.118.6.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEE8743D1D for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 14:39:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from [207.41.94.233] (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by smtp.owt.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i2VMcR8a015439 for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 14:38:27 -0800 From: Kent Stewart To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 14:39:20 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 References: <1D4AE2AB-820A-11D8-802A-000A95BBCCF8@mac.com> <20040330090117.GA29759@xor.obsecurity.org> <8F7546F2-8361-11D8-B5EE-000A95BBCCF8@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <8F7546F2-8361-11D8-B5EE-000A95BBCCF8@mac.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200403311439.20595.kstewart@owt.com> Subject: Re: port questions (why do I find myself fudging symlinks to make stuff work?) 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 22:39:22 -0000 On Wednesday 31 March 2004 02:20 pm, paul beard wrote: > Well, after a lot of different attempts to get past this problem, it > seems that expat isn't building all the files it needs to. > > ===> Building package for expat-1.95.7 > Creating package /usr/ports/packages/All/expat-1.95.7.tgz > Registering depends:. > Creating gzip'd tar ball in > '/usr/ports/packages/All/expat-1.95.7.tgz' tar: lib/libexpat.so.5: > Cannot stat: No such file or directory tar: Error exit delayed from > previous errors > pkg_create: make_dist: tar command failed with code 512 > > The missing so files are consistent with what I see when I try to > build against an upgraded expat installation. The packaged version > works just file: the so files are installed and all is well. But > portupgrade wants to upgrade expat, and when it does, those missing > files make everything else fail. > > I have no idea how to resolve the issue at the port level: is there a > workaround? and I have been pulling from CVS so this shouldn't be an > issue of being out of sync, I don't think. It is if you didn't rebuild the INDEX and INDEX.db. Kent > > ruby is at 1.8.1, per someone else's advice, as well. > > > -- > Paul Beard > > paulbeard [at] mac.com -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html