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Date:      Thu, 20 Sep 2001 18:49:24 -0700
From:      "Jacob S. Barrett" <jsbarrett@acm.org>
To:        Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@neomedia.it>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ports/graphics/png & XFree86-4: libpng.so.4 not found
Message-ID:  <200109210149.f8L1nOB82322@osiris.amduat.net>
In-Reply-To: <1001005411.3baa21634c77b@webmail.neomedia.it>
References:  <1001005411.3baa21634c77b@webmail.neomedia.it>

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I had a similar problem.  I have fixed it for the most part by rebuilding and 
reinstalling all ports that were dependent on libpng.  You can do this really 
easy by using portinstall from the portupgrade port.  This is probably not 
the quickest solution, but everything appears to be clean now.

-Jake

On Thursday 20 September 2001 10:03 am, Salvo Bartolotta wrote:
> Dear FreeBSD porters,
>
> A couple of days ago, I installed un updated version of png: viz.,
> png-1.2.0. A side effect of that was:
>
> 209 6:50pm ~ >====> ldconfig -r | grep png
>         212:-lpng.5 => /usr/local/lib/libpng.so.5
>
>
> On the other hand, KDE/GNOME/etc, under XFree86-4.1.0_6, require
> libpng.so.4, and failed to start.  To be able to access my webmail, I
> cheated, and copied libpng.so.5 to libpng.so.4.
>
> As a result, X loads, but no cigar^Wimages, of course.  Well, as far as
> webmail is concerned, no big deal.
>
> Has anybody else seen this?  Have I missed and/or scr***d something? 
> Should I file a PR?
>
> TIA,
> Salvo
>
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