#13885: p5-xml-parser does not install in non-standard MacPorts prefix -------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- Reporter: ryandesign@macports.org | Owner: ryandesign@macports.org Type: defect | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Port Bugs Component: ports | Version: 1.6.0 Keywords: | -------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- George Georgalis [http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports- users/2008-January/008100.html reported] on macports-users that when MacPorts is installed in a prefix other than /opt/local, p5-xml-parser does not install because it cannot find expat, and I can reproduce this problem: {{{ $ PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin \ ./configure \ --enable-readline \ --prefix=/tmp/macports \ --with-tclpackage=/tmp/macports/share/macports/Tcl \ --with-install-user=rschmidt \ --with-install-group=rschmidt $ make $ make install $ sudo mv /opt/local /opt/local-off Password: }}} Note that moving an existing MacPorts installation in /opt/local aside is essential to this reproduction recipe. If you don't do so, and your existing install contains expat, the install in the other prefix will succeed. {{{ $ rmdir /tmp/macports/var/macports/distfiles $ ln -s /opt/local-off/var/macports/distfiles /tmp/macports/var/macports/distfiles $ /tmp/macports/bin/port install p5-xml-parser ---> Fetching expat ---> Verifying checksum(s) for expat ---> Extracting expat ---> Configuring expat ---> Building expat with target all ---> Staging expat into destroot ---> Installing expat 2.0.1_0 ---> Activating expat 2.0.1_0 ---> Cleaning expat ---> Fetching perl5.8 ---> Verifying checksum(s) for perl5.8 ---> Extracting perl5.8 ---> Applying patches to perl5.8 ---> Configuring perl5.8 ---> Building perl5.8 with target all ---> Staging perl5.8 into destroot ---> Installing perl5.8 5.8.8_0+darwin_8 ---> Activating perl5.8 5.8.8_0+darwin_8 ---> Cleaning perl5.8 ---> Fetching p5-xml-parser ---> Verifying checksum(s) for p5-xml-parser ---> Extracting p5-xml-parser ---> Configuring p5-xml-parser Error: Target org.macports.configure returned: configure failure: shell command " cd "/tmp/macports/var/macports/build/_Users_rschmidt_macports_dports_perl_p5 -xml-parser/work/XML-Parser-2.36" && /tmp/macports/bin/perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor " returned error 2 Command output: Note (probably harmless): No library found for -lexpat Expat must be installed prior to building XML::Parser and I can't find it in the standard library directories. You can download expat from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/expat/ If expat is installed, but in a non-standard directory, then use the following options to Makefile.PL: EXPATLIBPATH=... To set the directory in which to find libexpat EXPATINCPATH=... To set the directory in which to find expat.h For example: perl Makefile.PL EXPATLIBPATH=/home/me/lib EXPATINCPATH=/home/me/include Note that if you build against a shareable library in a non-standard location you may (on some platforms) also have to set your LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable at run time for perl to find the library. Error: Status 1 encountered during processing. $ }}} -- Ticket URL: <http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/13885> MacPorts </projects/macports> Ports system for Mac OS