From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 24 22:37:05 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D8601065670 for ; Sat, 24 Jul 2010 22:37:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from ethic.thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AE968FC0C for ; Sat, 24 Jul 2010 22:37:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by ethic.thought.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o6OMauIn007147; Sat, 24 Jul 2010 15:36:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Sat, 24 Jul 2010 15:36:56 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 15:36:55 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Matthew Seaman Message-ID: <20100724223655.GA6725@thought.org> References: <20100724005105.GA22574@thought.org> <44vd84x347.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> <20100724202943.GA6335@thought.org> <4C4B55C4.6090800@infracaninophile.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4C4B55C4.6090800@infracaninophile.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 24 years of service to the Unix community. Cc: Lowell Gilbert , FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: popt-1.50 or better?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 22:37:05 -0000 On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 10:06:12PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 24/07/2010 21:29:43, Gary Kline wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 12:21:12PM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > >> Gary Kline writes: > >> > >>> hey y'all, > >>> > >>> there is a program called libots [or ots] that acts to summarize text > >>> that i'd like to port to freebsd. i grabbed the src from scourceforge > >>> days ago and found that i need a later version of popt than we have. > >>> we've got v 1.14 of popt and the configure script from libots says that > >>> 1.5 is required. i've stumbled around but haven't figured out where to > >>> grab the newer version. > >> > >> 1.14 is the latest version. 1.5 is considerably older. > > > > > > how can 1.50 be older than 1.14? > > Ummm... you seem to be in some sort of timewarp there Gary... The home > of the popt project appears to be http://freshmeat.net/projects/popt/, > and there the most recent version available is 1.14. Now, 1.50 would by > rights be newer than 1.14, but trouble is, 1.50 doesn't exist yet. > Also, you said 1.50 in the Subject of your e-mail, and 1.5 in the body: > one of those is probably a typo, and I'm not offering odds on which. > > How old is the ots software you're trying to port? If it's from before > there was popt >= 1.10 available, then it might be something as simple > as a failure to read all the digits in the popt version number, or > comparing the numbers alphabetically rather than numerically. Shouldn't > be too hard to debug. > > Cheers, > > Matthew hdere are the last few lines of output from configure, ots-0.5.0: checking for pkg-config... /usr/X11R6/bin/pkg-config checking for glib-2.0 >= 2.0 libxml-2.0 >= 2.4.23... yes checking OTS_CFLAGS... -I/usr/local/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/local/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/local/include/libxml2 -I/usr/local/include checking OTS_LIBS... -L/usr/local/lib -lglib-2.0 -lxml2 checking for poptParseArgvString in -lpopt... no configure: error: popt 1.5 or newer is required to build ots. You can download the latest version from ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist/rpm-4.1.x/ p2 15:33 [5784] what am i missing? gary > -- > Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard > Flat 3 > PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate > JID: matthew@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW > -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.83a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php http://journey.thought.org 99 44/100% Guaranteed Novel