error "Undefined symbol" while running fetchmail

[DJ Boris]

Hi Dan,

Thank you very much for your help. I did "make configure" in
ports/devel/gettext.... it downloaded the .tar.gz file from
ftp://gnudist.gnu.org, then I did "make install" and everything is cooking
100% now... fetchmail is already fetching mail like magic.

Just one more question, as I am still learning about all this make this,
make that and it is still all too cryptic for me... why didn't "pkg_add
gettext-0.11.5_1.tbz" do the job? What is the difference between what you
told me to do and what I was doing?

Thanx for your help yet again

DJ Boris

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Nelson" <dnelson at allantgroup.com>
To: "DJ Boris" <dj_boris at mail.ru>
Cc: "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions at FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 12:12 AM
Subject: Re: error "Undefined symbol" while running fetchmail


> In the last episode (Apr 25), DJ Boris said:
> > hm reinstalling gettext-0.11.5_1 didn't help
> >
> > here is what mine returns.....
> > # nm /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.4 | grep stpcpy
> >          U stpcpy
> >
> > this version of gettext requires libiconv-1.8_2 and I have
> > libiconv-1.8_1 because fetchmail-6.1.0 requires it. so then I install
> > libiconv-1.8_2 to stop gettext from complaining but then fetchmail
> > gives me a warning that it needs libiconv-1.8_1 and not
> > libiconv-1.8_2
> >
> > it seems like this is a vicious circle....
> >
> > any other idea what could be the problem?
>
> Is your ports tree up to date?  You should really be installing
> fetchmail-6.2.0.
>
> Run "make configure" in ports/devel/gettext; you should see something
> like this:
>
>  checking for utimes... yes
>  checking for memset... yes
>  checking for stpcpy... no
>  checking for strcspn... yes
>  checking for strcasecmp... yes
>
> which means that gettext could not find stpcpy and it will use an
> internal vesion instead.
>
> --
> Dan Nelson
> dnelson at allantgroup.com
>