From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 29 13:25:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pioneernet.net (mail.pioneernet.net [207.115.64.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1FB137B40D for ; Sat, 29 Sep 2001 13:25:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chip.wiegand.org [66.114.152.128] by pioneernet.net (SMTPD32-6.06) id AE3C457000CE; Sat, 29 Sep 2001 13:25:32 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Chip To: Mike Meyer Subject: Re: A general ports question/sylpheed port Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 13:28:47 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: questions@freebsd.org References: <15286.8237.151174.565732@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <15286.8237.151174.565732@guru.mired.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01092913284709.96094@chip.wiegand.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday 29 September 2001 12:25, Mike Meyer wrote: > Chip types: > > A program installed from the ports system should, or is supposed to, take > > care of ALL dependencies, correct? I tried to install Sylpheed from the > > ports tonite, but when I run it I get this: > > Correct. But programs do have bugs. > > > Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate loadable module in module_path: > > "libnotif.so", > > > > I ran, from / > > find . libnotif.so > > and sure enough, it was not found. Is this a problem with the port of > > Sylpheed? > > Probably. That library is in x11-toolkits/gtk-engines. It's also > possible that the port that installs that library was installed, then > pkg_deleted without the port being cleaned. So do a "make install" for > that port. If nothing happens, then you've got that later situation, > so you can do "make reinstall" to install it. If the install installs > it, notify the port maintainer of the problem. > >