Re: [xml] libxml2-2.6.18 on freebsd

[Alex Shaw <alex shaw bulletonline com>]

Im running 5.3, but one of the last things installed a couple of days ago was compat4x ... could this have had any effect ??, have also mailed the a  bsd list to try and get more os specific help.

THanks

Alex

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 23:09:20 +0100
Aron Stansvik <elvstone gmail com> wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 12:29:42 +0000, Alex Shaw
> <alex shaw bulletonline com> wrote:
> > Hi, im trying to install libxml2-2.6.18 from the FreeBSD ports, there is a problem with the compile on the system i am using. I have tried several versions of libxml2 and they all return the same error, which means its probably not an issue involved with libxml, but I cant pin down where the error is coming from, or what is causing the problem to occur. I was hoping someone on this list would be able to point me in the direction of what is causing this.
> > 
> > The error is:
> > cc -O -pipe -pedantic -W -Wformat -Wunused -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wswitch -Wcomment -Wtrigraphs -Wformat -Wchar-subscripts -Wuninitialized -Wparentheses -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wwrite-strings -Waggregate-return -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wnested-externs -Winline -Wredundant-decls -o .libs/xpath1 xpath1.o  -L/usr/local/lib ../../.libs/libxml2.so -lz -liconv -lm -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib
> > ../../.libs/libxml2.so: undefined reference to `__signbit'
> > gmake[3]: *** [xpath1] Error 1
> > gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/textproc/libxml2/work/libxml2-2.6.18/doc/examples'
> > gmake[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> > gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/textproc/libxml2/work/libxml2-2.6.18/doc'
> > gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> > gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/textproc/libxml2/work/libxml2-2.6.18'
> > gmake: *** [all] Error 2
> > *** Error code 2
> 
> I don't really know what your problem might be, and I don't have time
> to investigate, but I just wanted to say that I just installed 2.6.18
> from ports on my 5.3 laptop. I see in the manpage for signbit that
> it's a macro added to the math library starting from version 5.1 of
> FreeBSD, are you running 4.x? Maybe it's a glitch and you should
> contact the port maintainer? Anyway, I don't think it's for this list.
> 
> Best regards,
> Aron
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