Error: shared library "expat.5" does not exist

[Lowell Gilbert]

Rob Szarka <szlists at szarka.org> writes:

> [Giving this another try, in case everyone was busy watching the world
> cup the first time....  ;) ]

Around here, the professional season is nearing its halfway point...

> I'm running into a problem compiling several PHP extensions that
> depend on expat. They die with an error like the following:
>
> ***************
>
> ===>   fontconfig-2.2.3,1 depends on shared library: expat.5 - not found
> ===>    Verifying install for expat.5 in /usr/ports/textproc/expat2
> ===>   Returning to build of fontconfig-2.2.3,1
> Error: shared library "expat.5" does not exist
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/x11-fonts/fontconfig.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/x11/xorg-libraries.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/devel/t1lib.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/graphics/php5-gd.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/lang/php5-extensions.
>
> ******************
>
> I have the following in /usr/ports/local:
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  158440 Jun 23 11:03 /usr/local/lib/libexpat.a
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     793 Jun 23 11:03 /usr/local/lib/libexpat.la
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      13 Jun 23 11:03
> /usr/local/lib/libexpat.so -> libexpat.so.6
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  157398 Jun 23 11:03 /usr/local/lib/libexpat.so.6
>
> But not expat*
>
> It would seem that fontconfig is looking explicitly for expat.5 and
> that perhaps the name of the library has changed?
>
> LIB_DEPENDS=    freetype.9:${PORTSDIR}/print/freetype2 \
>                 expat.5:${PORTSDIR}/textproc/expat2

Because it's a "LIB_DEPENDS", the "lib" will automatically be
prepended to the filename.  

The problem is that 

> I did follow this advice in UPGRADING, to no avail: "Users of expat2
> (and its many dependencies) should do the following to  properly
> update expat2 and all of its dependencies: portupgrade -rf
> textproc/expat2"

You didn't update the x11-fonts/fontconfig /Makefile at the same time,
or it would be looking for expat.6, not expat.5.

> Any suggestions about how to fix or work around this issue?

Update your whole ports tree.