Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 20:19:53 +0200 (CEST) From: Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirkx@webweaving.org> To: Bsd Neophyte <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com> Cc: nkinkade@dsl-only.net, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: apache install problems w/expat Message-ID: <20021018201950.C55920-100000@foem.leiden.webweaving.org> In-Reply-To: <20021018181853.82736.qmail@web20108.mail.yahoo.com>
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y On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Bsd Neophyte wrote: > > --- Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@dsl-only.net> wrote: > > <...snip...> > > > Well, does library expat.4 actually exist? If not, then what version > > is the expat2 port installing? Assuming that expat2 installs a newer > > version of the library, you might be able to simply create a link named > > expat.4 and point it to the one expat installs. Then requests for > > expat.4 will simply point to the newer version, but this may only work > > reliably if you are sure that the newer version of the library is > > backward compatible with the older one. > > i don't know if this is the proper way to find it... but i did a "find / > -name expat.4" which yielded no results. > > i'm assuming this library does not exist. > > as for the installation. the port information about expat-2 reveals the > following: > > $ make search name=expat > Port: expat-1.95.5 > Path: /usr/ports/textproc/expat2 > Info: XML 1.0 parser written in C > Maint: kuriyama@FreeBSD.org > Index: textproc > B-deps: libtool-1.3.4_4 > R-deps: > > > i found v.1.95.5 on the sourceforge site... but the ports will not get > this version... it will build expat-1.95.4. > > what i did was pure experimentation, because i really don't know how this > all works. > > however, i downloaded the latest build of expat and did a tar -xvf... what > i believe was /usr/ports/textproc/expat2/files/work (which was where i > found the source files) and then i tried doind a "make && make install" > > however, this didn't resolve the problem either. > > so where can i find the libraries if i am not looking in the proper > place... and how do i make the link... and what do i make the link to? > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More > http://faith.yahoo.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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