Trouble compiling expat [Solved ] but....

[Marc LeMaire]

Marc LeMaire wrote:

> Matthew Seaman wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 12:24:14AM -0500, Marc LeMaire wrote:
>>
>>  
>>
>>> I've just installed a fresh version of Freebsd 4.9 stable, cvsupped 
>>> the port, build and install a generic kernel and world. I've done 
>>> mergemaster and everything is ok.
>>>
>>> The problem arises when I try to compile Kde, Moz, LyX. Each of 
>>> these programs crashes with the same message :
>>>
>>> building for expat-1.95.7
>>> -------------
>>> lib/xmlparse.c:76:#error memmove does not exist on this platform, 
>>> nor is a substitute available
>>> ***Error 1
>>>
>>> How can I fix this problem (or install the appropriate substitute)? 
>>> I contacted the port maintainer but I have no reply yet.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> memmove(3) certainly should be available on FreeBSD.  Sounds like your
>> make world didn't go entirely smoothly.  Try cvsup'ing the latest
>> RELENG_4 sources and build the world again.  Don't use any '-j' flags
>> for parallel build, use the default CPUTYPE and CFLAGS settings in
>> /etc/make.conf and if the make process reports an error, don't try and
>> restart the build, but investigate and try and solve whatever it was
>> that went wrong.  Ask again here if you get stuck, and include a good
>> chunk of the make output including from where any error first shows up
>> to the end.
>>
>>     Cheers,
>>
>>     Matthew
>>
>>  
>>
> I've re-installed the whole 4.9 stable shebang, up to and including 
> mergemaster.
> Expat2 compiled but now it's libiconv1.9.1_3 that is the troublemaker
>
> DHAVE_CONFIG_H -c ./relocatable.c -fPIC -o .libs/relocatable.lo
> ./relocatable.c: in function 'libconv_relocate':
> ./relocatable.c:392: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> ./relocatable.c:392: for each function it appear in.)
> ***Error code 1
>
> :-(
> I've never had these problems when doing a clean install of FBSD
>
> Marc
>