From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 19 16:01:24 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5A261065670 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:01:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lars@larseighner.com) Received: from mail.team1internet.com (mail.team1internet.com [216.110.13.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1DFE8FC08 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:01:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from larseighner.com (unknown [216.110.13.76]) by mail.team1internet.com (Postfix) with SMTP id DAD1416B4A5; Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:28:52 -0500 (CDT) Received: by larseighner.com (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1001 lars@larseighner.com; Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:28:49 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:28:43 -0500 (CDT) From: Lars Eighner X-X-Sender: lars@noos.6dollardialup.com To: Aleksandr Miroslav In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pcre library linking issues X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:01:24 -0000 On Thu, 19 Apr 2012, Aleksandr Miroslav wrote: > I inadvertently updated my PCRE library and in the process broke a number of > things that depended on the old library. > Not the right answer but works: Create a symbolic link in the library so libpcre.so.0 points to libpcre.so.1 The old library should have been moved to a compatibility library so that things that still depended on it could find it. This did not happen for some reason. Fortunately, it appears that libpcre.so.1 is (largely) backwards compatible, so much (all?) of what depended on it will work if fooled by a symbolic link. Some upgrades will wipe out the link so it may be necessary to recreate it until things get straightened out. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266