Hi Christian,
(Apologies for calling you Christopher previously, not sure where I got that
one from!)
> > I've just installed a current OpenBSD snapshot and proceeded to attempt
> > to install the bash shell from the ports tree. One of its dependencies is
> > GNU gettext, which fails to compile in the current CVS ports tree. The
> > reason for the failure is its dependency on the expat library, which is
> > not installed in the base system, nor does it appear to be in the ports
> > tree.
>
> expat is part of the xbase install set. You need to install that
> for packages that depend on it. And ports building generally
> requires X11 to be installed.
All of the OpenBSD systems I run are servers and do not have a need for X11.
And I'm not about to install xbase just to get expat so I can install gettext
and the bash shell... Previous versions of the gettext port have used the
textproc/expat port, which appears to no longer exists. However, from what I
can tell gettext will compile and operate perfectly well without expat.
Suggestions? Perhaps a no_expat or no_x11 flavor?
Cheers,
Joel
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