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Date:      Mon, 26 Nov 2001 01:00:24 +1100
From:      Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To:        Simon J Mudd <sjmudd@pobox.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gv port builds but fails - needing libpng.so.4 (?)
Message-ID:  <20011126010024.D579@k7.mavetju.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111251130400.13547-100000@phoenix.ea4els.ampr.org>; from sjmudd@pobox.com on Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 11:41:29AM %2B0100
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111251130400.13547-100000@phoenix.ea4els.ampr.org>

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On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 11:41:29AM +0100, Simon J Mudd wrote:
> I'm running 4.4-STABLE and am having problems with the gv port not 
> working.  I've just deleted the port and reinstalled it, and am now
> running gv-3.5.8.
> 
> make install works.
> 
> However when trying to view a postscript file I get the following error 
> message from the gv X binary:
> 
> GhostScript Messages
> 
> /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libpng.so.4" not found
> 
> Error: Postscript interpreter failed in main window.
> 
> I note that I have the port png-1.2.0 (Library for manipulating PNG
> images) installed and the ports packing list shows that it provides
> /usr/local/lib/libpng.so.5, not ".4".

Please install pkg_tree and run it through less. Then search for
png and you'll see the ports which are still depending on the old
png-port. If you re-install them (make, make deinstall and make
install) they'll know to use libpng.so.5 instead of libpng.so.4.

Edwin

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