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

[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 and gettext from packages. Then I 
> install *anything* that depends on those, and they need to be rebuilt. 
> The expat build fails. The gettext fail as a result, and then all the 
> rest do as well. I'm not sure how up to date they are if the ports that 
> depend on them want to rebuild them.

You're installing out of date packages then.  The ones on the ftp site
are current and provide libexpat.so.5.

Kris
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