From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 25 11:57:27 2003 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 1A46937B401 for ; Fri, 25 Apr 2003 11:57:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67C5D43FDD for ; Fri, 25 Apr 2003 11:57:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) id h3PIvQhM011829; Fri, 25 Apr 2003 13:57:26 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 13:57:25 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: DJ Boris Message-ID: <20030425185725.GS45035@dan.emsphone.com> References: <005901c30a9a$899d88f0$6300a8c0@d> <20030424201655.GE45035@dan.emsphone.com> <000b01c30aad$4f871a60$6300a8c0@d> <20030424221233.GF45035@dan.emsphone.com> <00f001c30b5c$0f8c3710$6300a8c0@d> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <00f001c30b5c$0f8c3710$6300a8c0@d> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: error "Undefined symbol" while running fetchmail 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: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 18:57:27 -0000 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 Packages are not built every day, so they may contain outdated dependencies.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