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Date:      Wed, 23 Aug 2000 21:06:01 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Chris D. Faulhaber" <jedgar@fxp.org>
To:        "David J. Kanter" <david.kanter@mindspring.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: libpng.so.3 not found
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008232104180.69221-100000@pawn.primelocation.net>
In-Reply-To: <20000823192737.A31912@localhost.localdomain>

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On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, David J. Kanter wrote:

> I updated my png port to 1.0.8 and when I started X (WindowMaker) got this
> error:
> 
> "/usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libpng.so.3" not found.
> 
> And then I'm booted out of X.
> 
> To fix this, I created a file, /usr/local/lib/libpng.so.3, that's a symbolic
> link to libpng.so.4, which came with the new port (the old port did have
> libpng.so.3).
> 
> This seems like a cheap fix. What's the right way?
>

Since the libpng version was bumped, it would be best to recompile
anything that is linked to the old libpng.  Alternatively, you could
reinstall the older version of libpng.

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Chris D. Faulhaber - jedgar@fxp.org - jedgar@FreeBSD.org
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