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Date:      Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:56:34 +1200
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
To:        Leslie Jensen <leslie@eskk.nu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Shared object "libintl.so.6" not found
Message-ID:  <20070320085634.GA49914@osiris.chen.org.nz>
In-Reply-To: <45FF9923.6090109@eskk.nu>
References:  <20070319175954.538D.GERARD@seibercom.net> <45FF9923.6090109@eskk.nu>

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On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 08:19:47AM +0000, Leslie Jensen wrote:

[...]
> I've just been through that! Reinstalling gettext won't solve this!
> 
> Take a look in
> 
> cd /usr/local/lib
> 
> And make a link
> ln -s libintl.so.8 libintl.so.6

You do realise that doing this will cause gettext dependancies to fail
in weird an wonderful ways.

> Also read /usr/ports/UPDATING it says
> 
> 20070318:
>   AFFECTS: users of devel/gettext (ie: YOU)
>   AUTHOR: ade@FreeBSD.org
> 
>   As a result of the upgrade to gettext-0.16.1, the shared library version
>   of libintl has changed, so you will need to rebuild all ports that
>   depend on gettext (ie: most of them, sorry).
> 
>   portupgrade -rf gettext

This is the correct solution. Unfortunately, also one of the slowest.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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