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popt compiling error

Any help would be awesome.

I am very new with freeBSD, so detailed help is the best. I am trying to compile a program call pport, which allows for manipulation of the serial port. When compiling I get the following error:

checking for pooptgetcontext in -lpopt... no
The popt library used for parsing command line options is required in order for this program to operate correctly. Please check out1 and download2 from the following sites:

1http://freshmeat.net/projects/popt/
2 ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist/rpm-4.1.x/

I have ensured that popt is installed. I dont really know where to go from here.

Adam

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Duncan Roe

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chuckycharms

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Hey! Thanks for the reply. Looks like you are right, thoutput of the find command results in:

/usr/local/lib/libpopt.so.0
/usr/local/lib/libpopt.so
/usr/local/lib/libpopt.la
/usr/local/lib/libpopt.a

it looks like the command I need to run when configuring is ./configure -L/usr/local/lib

is that correct? I will give it a try and repost.

chuckycharms

ASKER

nope, that command is incorrect, I am searching on how to use LDFLAGS, but if you could give me a hint in the meant time, that would be great.

chuckycharms

ASKER

Ok figured it out, it was ./configure LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib

It completed successfully, however after running make i get a bunch of ppport.c warnings, and then errors like:

pport.c:66: error: arrary size missing in 'optionT'
pport.c:102: error: 'optCon' undeclared (first use in this function)
pport.c:153: error: 'POPT_BADOPTION_NOALIAS' undeclared (first use in this function)

Stop in /downloads/pport-0.6.9/src.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /downloads/pport-0.6.9.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /downloads/pport-0.6.9.
*** Error code 1

Im loosin it here.....HA! Please help...

Duncan Roe

popt header files will have gone to /usr/local/include. Move them to /usr/include. In future consider using ./configure --prefix=/usr when building packages that you don't have currently installed - it can do no harm