Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 11:18:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Bsd Neophyte <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com> To: nkinkade@dsl-only.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: apache install problems w/expat Message-ID: <20021018181853.82736.qmail@web20108.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20021018172929.GC38884@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net>
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--- 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
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