p5-subversion

[nedry]

Hi i am trying to compile and install devel/p5-subversion but it keeps asking for libdb-5.3.a and I can't find it in the ports tree to compile and reinstall, please help.
nedry

 

[SirDice]

It's part of databases/db5. But if it's required it should install automatically. What exactly is the error you're getting?

 

[nedry]

Hi when compiling devel/p5-subversion

 subversion-1.9.5 depends on file /usr/local/lib/libdb-5.3.a - not found

I have databases/db5 installed, however its version of libdb is libdb-5.3 so I think it wants libdb-5.3.a not libdb-5.3.

 

[SirDice]

Turn off STATIC in devel/subversion.

 

[nedry]

Thanks beginners question how do i turn STATIC off ? thanks nedry

 

[SirDice]

cd /usr/ports/devel/subversion && make config

 

[nedry]

Sometimes I get a bit lost, I was trying make config in devel/p5-subversion not devel/subversion so I thought I might have to edit Makefiles etc, thanks for your help, nedry

 

[SirDice]

If you look at the top of the Makefile of p5-subversion you'll see this:

.if defined(WITH_SUBVERSION_VER) && ${WITH_SUBVERSION_VER} == 18
MASTERDIR=      ${.CURDIR}/../../devel/subversion18
.else                       
MASTERDIR=      ${.CURDIR}/../../devel/subversion
.endif                                  
PKGDIR=         ${.CURDIR}

This basically means it's a so-called slave port with devel/subversion being the "master". A slave port usually only deals with a certain set of options while the rest of the options are set in the "master" port.