Can't build textproc/php4-xml

[Bill Moran]

Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 01:36:00PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote:
> > 
> > Just updated the ports this morning.
> > 
> > %uname -a
> > FreeBSD mail.oasisgroup.com 5.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #1: Mon Jun  6 12:32:42 EDT 2005     wmoran at mail.oasisgroup.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
> > 
> > I emailed ale at freebsd.org (maintainer) yesterday, but have not gotten a
> > response yet.  I can't seem to find any reports of similar problems in
> > any of my google searches.
> > 
> > [...]
> > mkdir ./.libs
> > rm -fr ./.libs/xml.la ./.libs/xml.* ./.libs/xml.*
> > (cd . && ln -s xml.lo xml.o)
> > cc -shared  xml.lo  -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib/.libs -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib  -L/usr/local/lib /usr/local/lib/.libs/libexpat.so   -Wl,-soname -Wl,xml.so -o ./.libs/xml.so
> > cc: /usr/local/lib/.libs/libexpat.so: No such file or directory
> > *** Error code 1
> > 
> > Stop in /usr/ports/textproc/php4-xml/work/php-4.3.11/ext/xml.
> > *** Error code 1
> > 
> > Stop in /usr/ports/textproc/php4-xml.
> 
> expat2 was recently broken under the name of upgrading to libtool 1.5.
> Not to pick on these two committers, but this is a good case study of
> why quick and simple fixes like this one are often neither.

Hmmm ... do you have any suggestions?  Do you happen to remember a more
specific date (or a specific commit) that created this problem, that I
could back my tree up to that point to get this installed?

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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