error while updating

[sk8harddiefast]

portmaster -af

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lpth
gmake[1]: *** [libxml2mod.la] Error 1
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/textproc/py-libxml2/work/libxml2-2.7.6/python'
gmake: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/textproc/py-libxml2.

===>>> make failed for textproc/py-libxml2
===>>> Aborting update

 

[Lowell]

pth is pthreads.

I can't reproduce the problem. What system version are you running?

 

[sk8harddiefast]

i am running 8.0-release-p2,64bit arch

 

[Lowell]

Hmm. Do you have devel/pth installed? Even though I do, I don't see any link flags for pth in the directory where your build failed.

 

[silkie]

http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=10165&highlight=libxml

This thread worked for me.