From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Jul 8 7: 1:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF1C837B400 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 07:01:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 808CB43E42 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 07:01:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.12.4/8.12.4) with SMTP id g68E1BbM044933; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 10:01:11 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 10:01:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Alan E Cc: KDE FreeBSD List , FreeBSD Ports List Subject: Re: [kde-freebsd] kdemultimedia stomps on graphics/mpeg-lib's .so files In-Reply-To: <20020707011816.GA73385@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> Message-ID: 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 Sounds like the KDE people should probably just rename their library to kdejpeg. :-) Surely this pops up for people on other platforms too? How is it resolved in Linux? Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Network Associates Laboratories On Sat, 6 Jul 2002, Alan E wrote: > Or the other way around depending on installation order. > > Both ports lay claim to /usr/local/lib/libmpeg.so. Now, this wouldn't be > so bad except they aren't the *same* libmpeg.so. > > Gimp requires the libmpeg.so from mpeg-lib. So, the side effect of this > is that Gimp can't build a plugin it wants to, and the packaging of Gimp > then fails due to missing files. > > I'm not sure yet what a good solution is, but clearly it'll have to > involve changing kdemultimedia3, as mpeg-lib can easily claim seniority. > > I wonder if we can move kdemultimedia's libmpeg.so to > /usr/local/lib/kde3, and have things still work... > > I'd like to ignore this and say 'who cares' as much as anyone who > doesn't really use Gnome for anything, but Gimp is an important > (prominent and widely used) application and we have inadvertantly broken > it. There may be other apps which also use mpeg-lib; I haven't grepped > for it, yet. > > Comments, suggestions, whatever you got, please. > > -- > AlanE > _______________________________________________ > kde-freebsd mailing list > kde-freebsd@lists.csociety.org > http://lists.csociety.org/listinfo/kde-freebsd > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message