Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 21:06:06 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with libpng + Mozilla applications on FreeBSD 8.3 Message-ID: <20121026210606.829bf5bd.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <BLU0-SMTP4060A45BDD39DF157C64E1CF67E0@phx.gbl> References: <BLU0-SMTP3626767C58CD5F625E8D3DAF67E0@phx.gbl> <20121026164311.6a44948b.freebsd@edvax.de> <BLU0-SMTP4060A45BDD39DF157C64E1CF67E0@phx.gbl>
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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, ...
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