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Date:      Tue, 30 Sep 2003 19:44:17 +0300
From:      Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com>
To:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Ports : Mozilla / Mozilla-devel
Message-ID:  <20030930164417.GJ59342@ns2.wananchi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030930162335.GC74320@dan.emsphone.com>
References:  <200309301554.h8UFswJm009518@quarter.csl.sri.com> <20030930162335.GC74320@dan.emsphone.com>

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* Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> [20030930 19:25]: wrote:
> In the last episode (Sep 30), Mike Hogsett said:
> > I have been pulling my hair out over this.  I installed a package
> > several days ago that required gettext.  The gettext in ports has
> > been updated so I had to deinstall the existing on and install the
> > version from ports.
> > 
> > After that mozilla and mozilla-devel (and some other stuff) wont run
> > becuase libintl.so.4 no longer exists. (gettext from ports installs
> > libintl.so.5 now).
> > 
> > I pkg_delete'd mozilla and mozilla-devel and rebuilt (have tried
> > both) but even after they build and install they are still asking for
> > libintl.so.4!!
> 
> They may be linking against a shared library that requires
> libintl.so.4.
> 
> > I rm -rf'd /usr/ports and cvsup'd back hoping to clear any cruft that
> > may have remained and rebuilt mozilla-devel, still no dice!
> > 
> > Anyone have a suggestion how I can get either of these ports to work
> > again?
> 
> At this point, you'll probably have to rebuild all the ports that
> depended on the old gettext.  The portupgrade tools minimize this risk
> by preserving old shlibs in /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg, so you can
> upgrade dependant ports at your leisure.

Solution:


http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?threadid=13526


-Wash

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