/lib/exec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libpcre.so.0" not found, required by "libxfsm-4.6.so.0" amd64 FreeBSD 8.2

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On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:08:54 -0600
Antonio Olivares wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Ryan Frederick
> <ryanrfrederick at gmail.com> wrote:
> > It looks like others have run into this problem with avahi-app as
> > well:
> >
> > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2011-July/068658.html
> >
> > A cursory search shows that uninstalling avahi-app then
> > reinstalling should take care of the compilation failure. Afterward
> > you should be able to run portmaster as shown in the error message
> > (minus 'net/avahi-app') to finish recompiling the ports that depend
> > on pcre.

> 
> Thanks Ryan when I get home tonight, I will remove avahi-app and
> reinstall it and then recompile all the ports that depend on pcre.

I ran into this problem yesterday and removing avahi-ap didn't fix
it for me. In the end I identified some orphaned libraries
under /usr/local/ and deleting those fixed the problem.