Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 13:45:46 -0500 From: Peter Elsner <peter@servplex.com> To: Jamie <jamie@gnulife.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Trouble with ports Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.2.20030515134458.018446d8@mail.servplex.com> In-Reply-To: <20030515135316.G63829-100000@floyd.gnulife.org>
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Try installing (if you haven't already) the compatibility libs... I've seen that error before, and after installing them, the error goes away. Just a suggestion, not sure if it will actually work. Peter At 01:57 PM 5/15/2003 -0500, you wrote: > I am having trouble installing elm from ports, I get this message: > > /usr/libexec/elf/ld: cannot find -lintl >*** Error code 1 > > > I did a google search and people have been experiencing this problem a >lot when building packages from ports lately. > > > Someone recommended upgrading the ports as this has supposedly been >corrected. > I upgraded my ports tree with cvsup, and tried building again, but get >the same error. > > Someone recommended I install gettext-old, as quoted here: >" Any ideas ? > > > > > > > > > > Yes, install gettext-old, libintl is not part of the new gettext. > > > >" > > > so I searched in my ports collection, and cannot find a gettext-old >package. I also searched through the ports collection on FreeBSD.org and >cannot find any packages called gettext-old. > > > I am at a dead end. Anyone have any ideas here? I am running FreeBSD >4.8 Release. Thanks. > > > > > >"A friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself." > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Elsner <peter@servplex.com> Vice President Of Customer Service (And System Administrator) 1835 S. Carrier Parkway Grand Prairie, Texas 75051 (972) 263-2080 - Voice (972) 263-2082 - Fax (972) 489-4838 - Cell Phone (425) 988-8061 - eFax I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say "Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?" -- Mike Godwin Unix IS user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are. System Administration - It's a dirty job, but somebody said I had to do it. If you receive something that says 'Send this to everyone you know, pretend you don't know me. Standard $500/message proofreading fee applies for UCE.
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