graphics/gdk-pixbuf2 loader.cache issues

[Kris Moore]

On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 07:36:03PM +0100, Koop Mast wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Dec 2010 12:11:31 -0500
> Kris Moore <kris at pcbsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > I'm building a lot of packages which use the new graphics/gdk-pixbuf2 port, and it looks like its
> > now a requirement that the command "gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders --update-cache" is run before using
> > any gdk app, otherwise we get runtime errors such as:
> > "/usr/local/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache" not found.
> > 
> > In some cases the apps just stop working at this point, otherwise they may startup but with
> > missing graphics, screen corruption, etc. 
> > 
> > Since this file seems to be needed now, shouldn't the package automatically run that
> > command when it installs? Is anybody else seeing this?
> 
> There is a @exec line in the plist that should run this command. And I just did a small test, and it generated that file when installing from a package. I'm not sure whats going on. The only issue I heard of regarding gdk-pixbuf2 was that the librsvg2 port didn't register its gdk-pixbuf2 module. But I fixed that last week.

I'll do some more digging into this then. It also works for me when I add / remove the package on 
the system, but in my other case it was doing things in a chroot environment, maybe thats causing
some weirdness somehow :)

-- 
Kris Moore
PC-BSD Software