Lost expat dependency

[antenneX]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kent Stewart" <kstewart at owt.com>
To: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Cc: "antenneX" <antennex at swbell.net>; "Remko Lodder" <remko at elvandar.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2004 1:17 PM
Subject: Re: Lost expat dependency


> On Sunday 18 April 2004 10:22 am, Remko Lodder wrote:
> > antenneX wrote:
> > > It seems that when I updated to expat-1.95.7, it replaced some
> > > 1.95.5 dependencies needed for some other programs. For instance
> > > some daemons will not load (or update) because of this error:
> > > #Shared object "libintl.so.4" not found#
> > > or then some ".so" module cannot be loaded
> >
> > Did you use portupgrade to update it recursivly? then everythint that
> > had .5 as dep was reinstalled using .7 instead..
> >
> > Perhaps you can (dirty solution)
> >
> > ln -s libintl.so.5 libintl.so.4
> > in the directory wehere libintl.so.5 lives.
> >
> 
> The solution is in /usr/ports/UPDATING. They changed the interface and 
> you have to portupgrade -rf expat.
> 
> Kent
> 
> > HTH
> >
> > > I updated the expat according the the instructions in
> > > /usr/ports/UPDATING.
> > >
> > > Any suggestions on how to fix this....???
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > Jack
> 
> -- 
> Kent Stewart
> Richland, WA
> 

Kent: Indeed I had read UPDATING as my message stated, I used the:
#portupgrade -rf expat
...but, some programs are making that same complaint and won't load.