From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 25 21:03:28 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 3DFDE1065674 for ; Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:03:28 +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 079838FC0C for ; Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:03:27 +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 o6PL3Qj8018480; Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:03:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:03:26 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:03:25 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: bf1783@gmail.com Message-ID: <20100725210325.GC91830@thought.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org 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: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:03:28 -0000 On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 10:53:03PM +0000, b. f. wrote: > >here 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/ > > > poptParseArgvString is in the $PREFIX/lib/libpopt.so.0 library from > our devel/popt port. The latest available version of this software is > 1.16, in the Red Hat repos. Look at the configure script to determine > why it can't find the symbol. Maybe you need to reinstall devel/popt, > or patch the configure script. > can anybody tell me how to upgrade just this one file: devel/popt? i tried various forms up portupgrade. zip. i'm interested in anything that is an improvment on old getopt(). that said, i remember fu==ooling around w ith doing things the =long= way. having an "#include " with those few dozen lines of code hidden away would be a ++win. gary PS: we do have ots; it's in textproc. check it out, guys. seems to work out/box. pps:: it is time for a C2012 or the like... > > b. -- 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