fubar'd libz

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 3, 2007, at 23:51, ara.t.howard wrote:

> On Oct 3, 2007, at 8:48 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> no clue what happened. just selfupdate and rebuild zlib:
>>
>> $ sudo port selfupdate
>
> this yields:
>
> cfp:~ > sudo port selfupdate
> DarwinPorts base version 1.442 installed
> Downloaded MacPorts base version 1.520
> Configuring, Building and Installing new MacPorts base
> Error: /opt/local/bin/port: selfupdate failed: Error installing new  
> MacPorts base: shell command "cd /opt/local/var/db/dports/sources/ 
> rsync.rsync.darwinports.org_dpupdate1/base && ./configure --prefix=/ 
> opt/local --with-install-user=root --with-install-group=admin -- 
> with-tclpackage=/Library/Tcl && make && make install" returned error 2
> Command output: ld: /usr/local/lib/libz.dylib isym field of  
> reference table entry 134 past the end of the symbol table

[snip]

> thoughts?

You have stuff in /usr/local, specifically you have a zlib in /usr/ 
local/lib. It is problematic to have things in /usr/local. Please get  
rid of it, move it out of the way, whatever. Reinstall all software  
you need using MacPorts.