Date: 06 Jul 2002 21:30:06 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Alan E <alane@geeksrus.net> Cc: KDE FreeBSD List <kde-freebsd@lists.csociety.org>, FreeBSD Ports List <ports@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: kdemultimedia stomps on graphics/mpeg-lib's .so files Message-ID: <1026005406.369.58.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <20020707011816.GA73385@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> References: <20020707011816.GA73385@wwweasel.geeksrus.net>
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On Sat, 2002-07-06 at 21:18, 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 Hey! Some people use GNOME and KDE ;-). I don't, but I care :-). > (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. Something that has been done in the past is to rename the offending library, then patch the dependents to use the name name (e.g. libiconv --> libgiconv). You could rename KDE's libmpeg to libkmpeg or libkdempeg. Just a thought. Joe > > -- > AlanE > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message > -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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