From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Apr 26 16:46:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from gatekeeper.viper.net.au (gatekeeper.viper.net.au [203.31.238.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15B6E37B419; Fri, 26 Apr 2002 16:46:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (mark@localhost) by gatekeeper.viper.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA45219; Sat, 27 Apr 2002 09:46:44 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from mark@viper.net.au) Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 09:46:44 +1000 (EST) From: Mark Russell To: Doug Barton Cc: Francois Kritzinger , Subject: Re: gettext doesn't install libintl.so.1 In-Reply-To: <20020426134022.O77133-100000@zoot.corp.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20020427094358.Q27029-100000@gatekeeper.viper.net.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Doug Barton wrote: > On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Francois Kritzinger wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I recently upgraded some ports, and in the process gettext was upgraded. > > Since then, there are lost of programs complaining that > > "libintl.so.1 not found". > > This is a known problem, but so far the ports team hasn't really > addressed it, to my knowledge. I suggest the following as root, which > works for me: > > cd /usr/local/lib > ln -s libintl.so libintl.so.1 > > That's kind of cheesy, but it'll keep working until such time in the > future when the gettext people break API compatibility with .so.1. > I had a similar problem, what I did to fix the mess was to cd /usr/X11R6/bin && grep libintl.so.1 * the reinstall anything that matched, repeat for /usr/local/bin /usr/X11R6/lib and /usr/local/lib, once again probably not the correct way but it saved me adding symlinks which *may* break things in the future. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Mark Russell mark@viper.net.au ph 61 + 2 + 9699 3837 viper.net.au http://www.viper.net.au fax 61 + 2 + 9699 3841 +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ The best things in life are free, thats why Windoze costs so much If you have received this message in error it proves that I am an idiot. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message