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Date:      16 Jul 2002 00:25:04 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        jay@dresserfamily.org
Cc:        gnome@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: libxml2 2.4.23 build fails
Message-ID:  <1026793504.323.15.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020715133830.B65501@altair4.dresserfamily.org>
References:  <20020715133830.B65501@altair4.dresserfamily.org>

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On Mon, 2002-07-15 at 16:38, Jay Dresser wrote:
> [I sent this first to the xml mail list, but they said it should go to
> the FreeBSD maintainer]
> 
> I wanted to upgrade my gtk-gnutella, so I got version 0.90 and it
> complained about not having a new enough libxml2.  I had libxml2
> 2.4.12 and it wanted at least 2.4.19, so I looked around and found
> 2.4.23 and downloaded it.  The make fails as shown below.  It's hard
> to follow the thread of what happens after I type make, so I'm not
> sure where the bug is that passes the wrong parameter to xargs.  Maybe
> there is some other prerequisite, but it does not say.  I am running
> FreeBSD 4.5, freshly installed a few weeks ago.  Any advice is greatly
> appreciated.

Make sure you have the latest /usr/ports/Mk/* files.  Don't make it a
policy of just updating certain port directories.  You must always keep
a current version of the Mk directory, as this is the ports
infrastructure that makes it all work.

Joe

> 
> textproc/libxml2# make
> ===>  Patching for libxml2-2.4.23
> xargs: illegal option -- e
> usage: xargs [-0t] [-J replstr] [-n number [-x]] [-s size]
>            [utility [argument ...]]
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports/textproc/libxml2.
> 
> -- 
> Jay Dresser / jay@dresserfamily.org
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