Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 12:23:06 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Joshua Lokken <joshua@twobirds.us> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libintl.so.5 not found and general ports question Message-ID: <200404051223.06090.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <20040405191308.GB1800@cs025_2k> References: <xzpu102pdc1.fsf@dwp.des.no> <200404051158.06040.kstewart@owt.com> <20040405191308.GB1800@cs025_2k>
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On Monday 05 April 2004 12:13 pm, Joshua Lokken wrote: > * Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> [2004-04-05 12:06]: > > On Monday 05 April 2004 11:51 am, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > > > What would happen if a link called /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.5 > > > was created to point to the existing libintl.so.* file on Gerry's > > > system? > > > > The library interface was changed and cross linking is a really bad > > idea. > > I was able to work around the problem temporarily (on 4-stable) with > the above method (symlink), but Kent is probably right that it's not > an ideal solution. It is worse than that. It is how off by one or many security problems crop up. You call a library function and it doesn't return what you think it was returning. Find out what is wrong and fix the problem. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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