port questions (why do I find myself fudging symlinks to make stuff work?)

[paul beard]

On Mar 31, 2004, at 5:38 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> Well, then you can't use it :) There are certainly up-to-date packages
> for the basic ports like expat that you're having problems with.
>

So here's my problem. I install expat and gettext from packages. Then I 
install *anything* that depends on those, and they need to be rebuilt. 
The expat build fails. The gettext fail as a result, and then all the 
rest do as well. I'm not sure how up to date they are if the ports that 
depend on them want to rebuild them.

Information for expat-1.95.6_1.tgz:

Files:
/usr/local/man/man1/xmlwf.1.gz
/usr/local/bin/xmlwf
/usr/local/include/expat.h
/usr/local/lib/libexpat.a
/usr/local/lib/libexpat.so
/usr/local/lib/libexpat.so.4

gettext 0.13.x wants expat.5, so that's not as up to date as it might 
be.

I've dropped a note to the maintainer: perhaps there's something he can 
point out.
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