libxslt port build problem

[Alexander Nedotsukov]

On Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:19:05 +0000, Colin <colin at southportweb.co.uk>
wrote:
> Kevin Oberman wrote:
>>> 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.
>>   
> Thanks for the reply Kevin,
> I have already done a full rebuild including recompiling libxml however
I
> didn't use portupgrade. I've just tried the way you say and that has
> unfortunately not made any difference.
Show me output of pkg-config libxml-2.0 --modversion, please.

> Oh and as a side note, are there any archived for this list? 
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/

> The FreeBSD Gnome page lists freebsd-gnome and has a search box that
> points to a Russian site but I was wondering if there's a browseable
> archive?
> 
> Cheers,
> Colin.
> 
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