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Date:      Wed, 26 Sep 2001 15:12:45 -0700
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
To:        Morsal Roudbay <morsal@swipnet.se>
Cc:        jbarrett@amduat.net, Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@neomedia.it>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ports/graphics/png & XFree86-4: libpng.so.4 not found
Message-ID:  <3BB252DD.D09EE180@owt.com>
References:  <1001005411.3baa21634c77b@webmail.neomedia.it> <200109210149.f8L1nOB82322@osiris.amduat.net> <20010926234828.A39944@zigman.2y.net>

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Morsal Roudbay wrote:
> 
> I also have problems with png... I tried reinstalling kde but now it wont
> compile because it nags about libpng.so.4.... :( It wouldnt run before
> either because even then it nagged about this file.
> 
> Jake, could u plz tell me which command (portinstall -??)u used to address
> this issue?

You probably updated png to version 1.2.0. Now you have ports that
want the old version. You have to finish the job and reinstall the
ports that were built with the old version.

Kent

> 
> TIA
> 
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 06:49:24PM -0700, Jacob S. Barrett wrote:
> > I had a similar problem.  I have fixed it for the most part by rebuilding and
> > reinstalling all ports that were dependent on libpng.  You can do this really
> > easy by using portinstall from the portupgrade port.  This is probably not
> > the quickest solution, but everything appears to be clean now.
> >
> > -Jake
> >
> > On Thursday 20 September 2001 10:03 am, Salvo Bartolotta wrote:
> > > Dear FreeBSD porters,
> > >
> > > A couple of days ago, I installed un updated version of png: viz.,
> > > png-1.2.0. A side effect of that was:
> > >
> > > 209 6:50pm ~ >====> ldconfig -r | grep png
> > >         212:-lpng.5 => /usr/local/lib/libpng.so.5
> > >
> > >
> > > On the other hand, KDE/GNOME/etc, under XFree86-4.1.0_6, require
> > > libpng.so.4, and failed to start.  To be able to access my webmail, I
> > > cheated, and copied libpng.so.5 to libpng.so.4.
> > >
> > > As a result, X loads, but no cigar^Wimages, of course.  Well, as far as
> > > webmail is concerned, no big deal.
> > >
> > > Has anybody else seen this?  Have I missed and/or scr***d something?
> > > Should I file a PR?
> > >
> > > TIA,
> > > Salvo
> > >
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> >
> > --
> > Jacob S. Barrett
> > jsbarrett@acm.org
> > www.amduat.net
> >
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