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Date:      Wed, 31 Mar 2004 15:28:37 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        paul beard <paulbeard@mac.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD-questions <questions@Freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: port questions (why do I find myself fudging symlinks to make stuff work?)
Message-ID:  <20040331232837.GA57846@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <8F7546F2-8361-11D8-B5EE-000A95BBCCF8@mac.com>
References:  <1D4AE2AB-820A-11D8-802A-000A95BBCCF8@mac.com> <20040330090117.GA29759@xor.obsecurity.org> <8F7546F2-8361-11D8-B5EE-000A95BBCCF8@mac.com>

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On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 02:20:04PM -0800, paul beard wrote:
> Well, after a lot of different attempts to get past this problem, it=20
> seems that expat isn't building all the files it needs to.
>=20
> =3D=3D=3D>  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

What architecture is this on?  Some people have reported problems on
amd64 with shared libraries not being created - this appears to be
something to do with libtool, but I don't see it on my amd64 box.

To work around mysterious port problems you can always just install
the packages instead.

Kris

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