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

[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
> Registering depends:.
> Creating gzip'd tar ball in '/usr/ports/packages/All/expat-1.95.7.tgz'
> tar: lib/libexpat.so.5: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> pkg_create: make_dist: tar command failed with code 512

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.

To work around mysterious port problems you can always just install
the packages instead.

Kris
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