From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 27 13:28:38 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2319AD0 for ; Sat, 27 Oct 2012 13:28:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bourne.identity@hotmail.com) Received: from blu0-omc2-s22.blu0.hotmail.com (blu0-omc2-s22.blu0.hotmail.com [65.55.111.97]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E1F28FC0C for ; Sat, 27 Oct 2012 13:28:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from BLU0-SMTP110 ([65.55.111.72]) by blu0-omc2-s22.blu0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Sat, 27 Oct 2012 06:27:32 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [14.96.112.216] X-EIP: [uPouN2CBP16U4Dbn7WxYGrvu5443dvOu] X-Originating-Email: [bourne.identity@hotmail.com] Message-ID: Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([14.96.112.216]) by BLU0-SMTP110.blu0.hotmail.com over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Sat, 27 Oct 2012 06:27:29 -0700 Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 18:57:11 +0530 From: Manish Jain User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120907 Thunderbird/15.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexandr Alexeev Subject: Re: Problem with libpng + Mozilla applications on FreeBSD 8.3 References: <20121026164311.6a44948b.freebsd@edvax.de> <20121026210606.829bf5bd.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 27 Oct 2012 13:27:31.0216 (UTC) FILETIME=[D1155900:01CDB446] Cc: Polytropon , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 13:28:39 -0000 > On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 11:06 PM, Polytropon wrote: >> 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, ... >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > Sometimes placing symlink to the newer version of library instead of > older version helps. > There is only one symlink (/usr/local/bin/libpng.so) and it points to the newer version. Regards, Manish Jain bourne.identity@hotmail.com