From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 26 19:06:09 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1485987C for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2012 19:06:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mx02.qsc.de (mx02.qsc.de [213.148.130.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C289A8FC0A for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2012 19:06:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from r56.edvax.de (port-92-195-110-131.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.110.131]) by mx02.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B6E8253FC; Fri, 26 Oct 2012 21:06:07 +0200 (CEST) Received: from r56.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r56.edvax.de (8.14.5/8.14.5) with SMTP id q9QJ66XO003606; Fri, 26 Oct 2012 21:06:06 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 21:06:06 +0200 From: Polytropon To: Manish Jain Subject: Re: Problem with libpng + Mozilla applications on FreeBSD 8.3 Message-Id: <20121026210606.829bf5bd.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: References: <20121026164311.6a44948b.freebsd@edvax.de> Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 19:06:09 -0000 On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 00:06:44 +0530, Manish Jain wrote: > > Hello Polytropon, > > Thanks for replying. > > > Maybe an update of FF and TB would be sufficient, so it can link > > to the present (or at least expected) libraries accordingly. > > Maybe I did not make it clear enough in the original message. The only > thing I installed from the installation DVD was the OS and the GNOME2 > metaport. Everything else including FF and TB was installed from ports, > the tarball of which I downloaded just a couple of days back. I hope you > are not suggesting that I build the GNOME2 metaport too from the ports > directory : with my internet connection, that really would take me into > the next century. Exactly that would have been the preferred solution. :-) > > You should not manually copy things. At some point, something will > > crash, and the ports infrastructure cannot take care of it. It's > > easier to use a port management tool (like portmaster) to deal > > with installing and updating of ports. > > For the present issue, it seems logical that I would need 2 versions of > libpng : one for GNOME and one for the ports being installed. Having the > two versions reside independently in /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib seems > to be the only way out. I still must admit that it defeats the purpose > of having port management tools. It also blurs the line between OS (/usr/lib) and additional software (/usr/local/lib) directories. However, both directories are used by the linker, so it looks possible (and probably better than messing with symlinks in /usr/local/lib). Problems _might_ occur when updating world. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...