popt-1.50 or better??

[Gary Kline]

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 02:35:52PM +0000, b. f. wrote:
> >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 at a loss here.  First of all, you mean "upgrade this port",
> right?  Because devel/popt is a port, not a file.  If you have an old
> version of devel/popt, it would seem that any of the standard updating
> tools would work.  If you just want to reinstall it, you could simply:
> 
> cd /usr/ports/devel/popt && make deinstall clean install && make clean
> 
> Then you could check your libpopt.so.0:
> 
> ldconfig -vr | fgrep popt
> objdump -T /usr/local/lib/libpopt.so.0 | fgrep poptParseArgvString
> 
> Of course, I've assumed that PREFIX=LOCALBASE=/usr/local and
> PORTSDIR=/usr/ports.  Make the proper substitutions if they aren't.
> 
> I don't see any error logs or an IGNORE for textproc/ots, so I'm
> assuming that it builds properly on the package-building cluster.  If
> that's the case, then there is something wrong with _your_ build: a
> corrupted file, polluted environment, error after autodetection, etc.
> But we won't know what is wrong until you show the corresponding part
> of the configure script and errors in the config.log.
> 
> b.


	i already did the make deinstall reinstall.   so, looks like i do 
	have the latest version.

	also, yup:


p2 11:54 <tao> [5898] objdump -T /usr/local/lib/libpopt.so.0 | fgrep poptParseArgvString
00004400 g    DF .text  00000212  Base        poptParseArgvString


	tx for the clue.




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