popt-1.50 or better??

[Gary Kline]

On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 10:53:03PM +0000, b. f. wrote:
> >here are the last few lines of output from configure, ots-0.5.0:
> >
> >checking for pkg-config... /usr/X11R6/bin/pkg-config
> >checking for glib-2.0 >= 2.0 libxml-2.0 >= 2.4.23... yes
> >checking OTS_CFLAGS... -I/usr/local/include/glib-2.0
> >-I/usr/local/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/local/include/libxml2
> >-I/usr/local/include
> >checking OTS_LIBS... -L/usr/local/lib -lglib-2.0 -lxml2
> >checking for poptParseArgvString in -lpopt... no
> >configure: error: popt 1.5 or newer is required to build ots.
> >You can download the latest version from
> >ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist/rpm-4.1.x/
> 
> 
> poptParseArgvString is in the $PREFIX/lib/libpopt.so.0 library from
> our devel/popt port. The latest available version of this software is
> 1.16, in the Red Hat repos.  Look at the configure script to determine
> why it can't find the symbol. Maybe you need to reinstall devel/popt,
> or patch the configure script.
> 


	can anybody tell me how to upgrade just this one file:
	devel/popt?  i tried various forms up portupgrade.  zip.

	i'm interested in anything that is an improvment on old getopt().
	that said, i remember fu==ooling around w ith doing things the 
	=long= way. having an "#include <stdopt.h>"  with those few dozen
	lines of code hidden away would be a ++win.


	gary

	PS: we do have ots; it's in textproc.  check it out, guys.  seems
	    to work out/box.

	pps:: it is time for a C2012 or the like... 



> 
> b.

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