On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 10:53:03PM +0000, b. f. wrote: > >here are the last few lines of output from configure, ots-0.5.0: > > > >checking for pkg-config... /usr/X11R6/bin/pkg-config > >checking for glib-2.0 >= 2.0 libxml-2.0 >= 2.4.23... yes > >checking OTS_CFLAGS... -I/usr/local/include/glib-2.0 > >-I/usr/local/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/local/include/libxml2 > >-I/usr/local/include > >checking OTS_LIBS... -L/usr/local/lib -lglib-2.0 -lxml2 > >checking for poptParseArgvString in -lpopt... no > >configure: error: popt 1.5 or newer is required to build ots. > >You can download the latest version from > >ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist/rpm-4.1.x/ > > > poptParseArgvString is in the $PREFIX/lib/libpopt.so.0 library from > our devel/popt port. The latest available version of this software is > 1.16, in the Red Hat repos. Look at the configure script to determine > why it can't find the symbol. Maybe you need to reinstall devel/popt, > or patch the configure script. >
can anybody tell me how to upgrade just this one file: devel/popt? i tried various forms up portupgrade. zip. i'm interested in anything that is an improvment on old getopt(). that said, i remember fu==ooling around w ith doing things the =long= way. having an "#include <stdopt.h>" with those few dozen lines of code hidden away would be a ++win. gary PS: we do have ots; it's in textproc. check it out, guys. seems to work out/box. pps:: it is time for a C2012 or the like... > > b. -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.83a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php http://journey.thought.org 99 44/100% Guaranteed Novel _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"