libxslt port build problem

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:59:16 +0000
> From: Colin <colin at southportweb.co.uk>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome at freebsd.org
> 
> Hi,
> I've been unable to upgrade libxslt for a while on my installation of 
> FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p12
> It always tells me the following:
> 
> checking for libxml libraries >= 2.6.27... configure: error: Version 
> 2.6.23 found. You need at least libxml2 2.6.27 for this version of libxslt
> 
> I can find no information on where it is getting the information that 
> 2.6.23 is installed because pkg_info shows only libxml2-2.7.6 (the 
> current port) as installed.
> 
> I don't really know anything about libxml2 so I assume there's some 
> leftover bits from an old version somewhere..can you point me in the 
> right direction to clean it up?

Just 'portupgrade -f libxml2' should do the trick. (Or what every tool
you would use to force the re-installation of a port). Then upgrade
libxslt. At least this has worked for me.
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