Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 13:57:25 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: DJ Boris <dj_boris@mail.ru> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: error "Undefined symbol" while running fetchmail Message-ID: <20030425185725.GS45035@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <00f001c30b5c$0f8c3710$6300a8c0@d> References: <005901c30a9a$899d88f0$6300a8c0@d> <20030424201655.GE45035@dan.emsphone.com> <000b01c30aad$4f871a60$6300a8c0@d> <20030424221233.GF45035@dan.emsphone.com> <00f001c30b5c$0f8c3710$6300a8c0@d>
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In the last episode (Apr 25), DJ Boris said: > Thank you very much for your help. I did "make configure" in > ports/devel/gettext.... it downloaded the .tar.gz file from > ftp://gnudist.gnu.org, then I did "make install" and everything is > cooking 100% now... fetchmail is already fetching mail like magic. > > Just one more question, as I am still learning about all this make > this, make that and it is still all too cryptic for me... why didn't > "pkg_add gettext-0.11.5_1.tbz" do the job? What is the difference > between what you told me to do and what I was doing? Packages are not built every day, so they may contain outdated dependencies. Using portupgrade (ports/sysutils/portupgrade) can help with this. It will install packages instead of ports if given the -P flag. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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