Re: port questions (why do I find myself fudging symlinks to make stuff work?)

2004-04-02 Thread Chuck Swiger
paul beard wrote: On Mar 31, 2004, at 2:29 PM, Charles Swiger wrote: Stop using portupgrade for a moment; do a make deinstall of the expat port (or use pkg_delete -f), do a make clean, and then do a make reinstall. been there, done that, got the bloody knuckles to show for it.

Re: port questions (why do I find myself fudging symlinks to make stuff work?)

2004-03-31 Thread paul beard
Well, after a lot of different attempts to get past this problem, it seems that expat isn't building all the files it needs to. === 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

Re: port questions (why do I find myself fudging symlinks to make stuff work?)

2004-03-31 Thread Charles Swiger
On Mar 31, 2004, at 5:20 PM, paul beard wrote: I have no idea how to resolve the issue at the port level: is there a workaround? and I have been pulling from CVS so this shouldn't be an issue of being out of sync, I don't think. Stop using portupgrade for a moment; do a make deinstall of the

Re: port questions (why do I find myself fudging symlinks to make stuff work?)

2004-03-31 Thread paul beard
On Mar 31, 2004, at 2:29 PM, Charles Swiger wrote: Stop using portupgrade for a moment; do a make deinstall of the expat port (or use pkg_delete -f), do a make clean, and then do a make reinstall. been there, done that, got the bloody knuckles to show for it. [/usr/ports/textproc/expat2]#

Re: port questions (why do I find myself fudging symlinks to make stuff work?)

2004-03-31 Thread Kent Stewart
On Wednesday 31 March 2004 02:20 pm, paul beard wrote: Well, after a lot of different attempts to get past this problem, it seems that expat isn't building all the files it needs to. === Building package for expat-1.95.7 Creating package /usr/ports/packages/All/expat-1.95.7.tgz Registering

Re: port questions (why do I find myself fudging symlinks to make stuff work?)

2004-03-31 Thread Kris Kennaway
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 seems that expat isn't building all the files it needs to. === Building package for expat-1.95.7 Creating package /usr/ports/packages/All/expat-1.95.7.tgz

Re: port questions (why do I find myself fudging symlinks to make stuff work?)

2004-03-31 Thread paul beard
On Mar 31, 2004, at 3:28 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: 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. It's on x86, running 4.9. To work around

Re: port questions (why do I find myself fudging symlinks to make stuff work?)

2004-03-31 Thread paul beard
On Mar 31, 2004, at 4:29 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: You're not doing it right, then :-) Use portupgrade with the -PP switch to force the use of packages. What if there isn't a package for a given port? I wasn't aware there were packages (though I suppose for an ancient release like 4.9 there

Re: port questions (why do I find myself fudging symlinks to make stuff work?)

2004-03-31 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 04:22:22PM -0800, paul beard wrote: On Mar 31, 2004, at 3:28 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: 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

Re: port questions (why do I find myself fudging symlinks to make stuff work?)

2004-03-31 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 04:34:05PM -0800, paul beard wrote: On Mar 31, 2004, at 4:29 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: You're not doing it right, then :-) Use portupgrade with the -PP switch to force the use of packages. What if there isn't a package for a given port? I wasn't aware there

Re: port questions (why do I find myself fudging symlinks to make stuff work?)

2004-03-31 Thread paul beard
On Mar 31, 2004, at 5:38 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: Well, then you can't use it :) There are certainly up-to-date packages for the basic ports like expat that you're having problems with. So here's my problem. I install expat and gettext from packages. Then I install *anything* that depends on

Re: port questions (why do I find myself fudging symlinks to make stuff work?)

2004-03-31 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 06:37:44PM -0800, paul beard wrote: On Mar 31, 2004, at 5:38 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: Well, then you can't use it :) There are certainly up-to-date packages for the basic ports like expat that you're having problems with. So here's my problem. I install expat

Re: port questions (why do I find myself fudging symlinks to make stuff work?)

2004-03-31 Thread paul beard
On Mar 31, 2004, at 7:52 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: You're installing out of date packages then. The ones on the ftp site are current and provide libexpat.so.5. This is what's available for 4.9-RELEASE: [/opt/ports/packages/All]# pkg_info -L expat-1.95.6_1.tgz Information for expat-1.95.6_1.tgz:

Re: port questions (why do I find myself fudging symlinks to make stuff work?)

2004-03-31 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 08:43:34PM -0800, paul beard wrote: On Mar 31, 2004, at 7:52 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: You're installing out of date packages then. The ones on the ftp site are current and provide libexpat.so.5. This is what's available for 4.9-RELEASE: You want the

Re: port questions (why do I find myself fudging symlinks to make stuff work?)

2004-03-31 Thread paul beard
On Mar 31, 2004, at 9:21 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: You want the packages-4-stable directory; RELEASE packages are not updated. See http://www.freebsd.org/ports for more details. Ah, I see. There was an earlier email to the effect that the packages I needed were under 4.9-RELEASE. -- Paul Beard

Re: port questions (why do I find myself fudging symlinks to make stuff work?)

2004-03-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 09:21:34PM -0800, paul beard wrote: [ please cc me as I am not on the list] I have been trying to upgrade cups to 1.1.20 and have been running into some problems with libraries not being found (specifically jpeg.9 and tiff.4). After a few different iterations of

Re: port questions (why do I find myself fudging symlinks to make stuff work?)

2004-03-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 09:21:34PM -0800, paul beard wrote: [ please cc me as I am not on the list] I have been trying to upgrade cups to 1.1.20 and have been running into some problems with libraries not being found (specifically jpeg.9 and tiff.4). After a few different iterations of

Re: port questions (why do I find myself fudging symlinks to make stuff work?)

2004-03-30 Thread paul beard
On Mar 30, 2004, at 12:23 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: A more interesting question would be what output do you get from: % pkg_info -g jpeg-\* tiff-\* [/usr/local/lib]# ls -l libjpeg* libtiff* -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 159384 Mar 30 08:04 libjpeg.a -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 354610 Mar 29 21:11

port questions (why do I find myself fudging symlinks to make stuff work?)

2004-03-29 Thread paul beard
[ please cc me as I am not on the list] I have been trying to upgrade cups to 1.1.20 and have been running into some problems with libraries not being found (specifically jpeg.9 and tiff.4). After a few different iterations of pkg_add, portupgrade, portinstall, and accompanying pkg_delete,