I'm a beginner so be nice to me

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Sep 5, 2010, at 10:45, ronxroxx at comcast.net wrote:

> I don't know where dlfcn.h file in /opt/local/include came from.  However, it appears to be an older version and RTLD_NEXT was not defined in that file.  I ran your command "port provides /opt/local/include/dlfcn.h" and it stated that it is not provided by a MacPorts port.  At any rate, I still moved the file to dlfcn.h.bak and "sudo port install dsniff-devel" and it installed without any errors.

Ok, good. Who knows where that /opt/local/include/dlfcn.h came from but I don't think it's supposed to be there, and moving, renaming or deleting it should prevent it from causing problems in the future.


> Since help2man was previously installed from my last hack, It doesn't appear that the install started from scratch as I was unable to find the bindtextdomain.c file that I modified with "#define    RTLD_NEXT        ((void *) -1)"  I was going to remove this line before installing dsniff-devel but was unable to find it so I ran the command without modifying it.  I personally don't like doing hacks like this as I don't know if I will screw up something somewhere else down the line.

Yes, the bindtextdomain.c file you edited was part of the help2man source code, which MacPorts had extracted into the help2man work directory. After help2man installed successfully, MacPorts deleted the help2man work directory for you.

If you want, you could verify that help2man now builds without modification by running:

sudo port -n upgrade --force help2man