Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 00:07:28 -0700 From: Jay Dresser <jay@dresserfamily.org> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: libxml2 2.4.23 build fails Message-ID: <20020716000728.C65501@altair4.dresserfamily.org> In-Reply-To: <1026793504.323.15.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com>; from marcus@marcuscom.com on Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 12:25:04AM -0400 References: <20020715133830.B65501@altair4.dresserfamily.org> <1026793504.323.15.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com>
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On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 12:25:04AM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > 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. Wow! That fixed it! libxml2 OK, gtk-gnutella OK. Thanks a lot. I never knew about that Mk directory before. Good to know. I guess you're saying I need to update that directory as often as I download new ports. This may explain a few other builds I have had that failed in the past. -- Jay Dresser / jay@dresserfamily.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message
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