linux-pango's pango-querymodules

Boris Samorodov bsam at ipt.ru
Sun Sep 18 23:38:40 PDT 2005


On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 11:29:13 +0200 Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 20:33:13 -0400
> Mikhail Teterin <mi+kde at aldan.algebra.com> wrote:

> > For some reason, the post-install target of the linux-pango
> > port fails for me every time, because the executable
> > (/compat/linux/usr/bin/pango-querymodules) fails to find libX11.so.6
> > 
> > Adding an explicit invocation of Linux' ldconfig seems to help, though.
> > Have you seen such a thing before? I'm using the 32-bit Linux emulation
> > on FreeBSD-6.0/amd64.

> Are you using a non-default linux_base? The default linux_base includes
> the X11 directory in the ld.so.conf, so we don't need the ldconfig
> part. Trevor failed to add it to his non-default linux_base versions
> even after I told him about the problem (I did it at least once, maybe
> more than once).

> The reason why the linux_base port has to have this in ld.so.conf
> instead of adding it when installing the linux-X11 bits is: the file is
> owned by linux_base and no port should modify the files of other ports
> if we can avoid it. Adding the directory in the linux_base port doesn't
> hurt and causes a less complex de-/installation procedure for the
> linux-X11 bits.

BTW as for linux_base-rh-9 we do have a PR
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/85254

which solve the problem. The PR was opened at 23 Aug. Should we
treat it as a maintainer timeout?


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