Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 11:01:36 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Alec Berry <alec@exit1.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: libtool? Message-ID: <20010524110136.B30785@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <3B0C0ABE.691385A5@exit1.com>; from alec@exit1.com on Wed, May 23, 2001 at 03:08:46PM -0400 References: <3B0C0ABE.691385A5@exit1.com>
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--sdtB3X0nJg68CQEu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 03:08:46PM -0400, Alec Berry wrote: > I have been having a number of problems lately trying to install > software on a FreeBSD 4.3 system. The key program I tried to install > is AxKit. It required a number of other packages, so I went to work > installing them. Almost every prerequisite program gave me fits. It > seems there is some sort of issue with FreeBSD's linker? For > example, after installing expat, several packages would not > compile. They would choke in the configure script with "you need to > install expat". I re-installed expat into /usr/lib instead of > /usr/local/lib, but that did not help. Fortunately, several of the > packages were available in the ports collection-- but not all. I > finaly got it all working after finding a page that someone wrote > with some tweaks to the Makefile.PL for AxKit. No, I don't think there is a problem with FreeBSD's linker, but a lot of third party software doesn't configure itself properly, or you may have to use explicit directives to the configure script to tell it where to find things. This is the fault of the software itself, not FreeBSD; we fix such problems when they're added to the ports collection, but that obviously doesn't work for things that aren't yet ports. Kris --sdtB3X0nJg68CQEu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.5 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7DUyAWry0BWjoQKURAiy2AKCG2SCa1TBP+ke2ww3uH3VMnEa9FgCfUIEa jioelaCsX1uDQ4uRaksaJXA= =4yHV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --sdtB3X0nJg68CQEu-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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