wrestling with b*rked package/ports collection

From: paul beard (paulbeard_at_mac.com)
Date: 03/31/04

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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 23:33:40 -0800

    I seem to be in a loop where expat and gettext will somehow not install
    in such a way as to serve as valid dependencies. I have rebuilt either
    directly or as part of building something else countless times, as well
    as installing from a package. For whatever reason, expat seems to be
    missing something:

    Error: shared library "expat.5" does not exist

    portupgrade -f, installing from source, installing from a package: all
    seem to fail. And since it and/or gettext are core dependencies for
    everything else, it seems, there's not much progress being made. Any
    other sage advice? 

    --
Paul Beard
<www.paulbeard.org/>
paulbeard [at] mac.com
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