From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Apr 27 18: 7:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from iafrica.com (vic-dial-196-30-232-207.mweb.co.za [196.30.232.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0659437B41C; Sat, 27 Apr 2002 18:07:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ayon@localhost) by iafrica.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g3R7uwU46655; Sat, 27 Apr 2002 09:56:58 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from ayon) Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 09:56:57 +0200 From: Francois Kritzinger To: Mark Russell Cc: Doug Barton , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: gettext doesn't install libintl.so.1 Message-ID: <20020427095657.A46637@noya> References: <20020426134022.O77133-100000@zoot.corp.yahoo.com> <20020427094358.Q27029-100000@gatekeeper.viper.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020427094358.Q27029-100000@gatekeeper.viper.net.au>; from mark@viper.net.au on Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 09:46:44AM +1000 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 On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 09:46:44AM +1000, Mark Russell wrote: >On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Doug Barton wrote: > >> On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Francois Kritzinger wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > I recently upgraded some ports, and in the process gettext was upgraded. >> > Since then, there are lost of programs complaining that >> > "libintl.so.1 not found". >> >> This is a known problem, but so far the ports team hasn't really >> addressed it, to my knowledge. I suggest the following as root, which >> works for me: >> >> cd /usr/local/lib >> ln -s libintl.so libintl.so.1 >> >> That's kind of cheesy, but it'll keep working until such time in the >> future when the gettext people break API compatibility with .so.1. >> > > >I had a similar problem, what I did to fix the mess was to cd >/usr/X11R6/bin && grep libintl.so.1 * the reinstall anything that >matched, repeat for /usr/local/bin /usr/X11R6/lib and /usr/local/lib, once >again probably not the correct way but it saved me adding symlinks which >*may* break things in the future. > > OK, but I have another problem. Many of the programs I use will not build without libintl.so.1. I assume that this means that the maintainer has not updated the port yet? So, I can only upgrade them when they actually start using libintl.so.2. Thus for now I *have* to use the symlink method... Is this correct? >+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ >Mark Russell mark@viper.net.au ph 61 + 2 + 9699 3837 >viper.net.au http://www.viper.net.au fax 61 + 2 + 9699 3841 >+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ > The best things in life are free, thats why Windoze costs so much > >If you have received this message in error it proves that I am an idiot. > > -- Francois Kritzinger KRTFRA002 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message