Correcting problems disclosed by pkg_libchk

Carmel carmel_ny at hotmail.com
Wed Jan 18 13:14:48 UTC 2012


On another thread I noticed a reference to "pkg_libchk". I was
interested in seeing what it would disclose on my system, so I ran it.

pkg_libchk -Rrv

It produced a great deal of output. This is one section dealing with
"Firefox"

firefox-9.0.1,1: located: /usr/local/lib/firefox/components/libbrowsercomps.so misses libmozalloc.so found at /usr/local/lib/firefox/libmozalloc.so.
firefox-9.0.1,1: located: /usr/local/lib/firefox/components/libdbusservice.so misses libmozalloc.so found at /usr/local/lib/firefox/libmozalloc.so.
firefox-9.0.1,1: located: /usr/local/lib/firefox/components/libmozgnome.so misses libmozalloc.so found at /usr/local/lib/firefox/libmozalloc.so.
firefox-9.0.1,1: located: /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox-bin misses libmozalloc.so found at /usr/local/lib/firefox/libmozalloc.so.
firefox-9.0.1,1: located: /usr/local/lib/firefox/libsoftokn3.so misses libmozsqlite3.so found at /usr/local/lib/firefox/libmozsqlite3.so.
firefox-9.0.1,1: located: /usr/local/lib/firefox/libxpcom.so misses libmozalloc.so found at /usr/local/lib/firefox/libmozalloc.so.
firefox-9.0.1,1: located: /usr/local/lib/firefox/libxul.so misses libmozsqlite3.so found at /usr/local/lib/firefox/libmozsqlite3.so.
firefox-9.0.1,1: located: /usr/local/lib/firefox/libxul.so misses libmozalloc.so found at /usr/local/lib/firefox/libmozalloc.so.
firefox-9.0.1,1: located: /usr/local/lib/firefox/plugin-container misses libmozalloc.so found at /usr/local/lib/firefox/libmozalloc.so.
firefox-9.0.1,1: located: /usr/local/lib/firefox/sdk/lib/libxpcom.so misses libmozalloc.so found at /usr/local/lib/firefox/libmozalloc.so.
firefox-9.0.1,1: located: /usr/local/lib/firefox/sdk/lib/libxul.so misses libmozsqlite3.so found at /usr/local/lib/firefox/libmozsqlite3.so.
firefox-9.0.1,1: located: /usr/local/lib/firefox/sdk/lib/libxul.so misses libmozalloc.so found at /usr/local/lib/firefox/libmozalloc.so.

If I am reading this correctly, the libmozalloc.so library is missing. I
have tried doing a forced re-install of Firefox, but the same condition
exists. Other packages have several libraries apparently missing also.
Since re-installing the port does not seem to alleviate the problem,
what is the prescribed method of correcting it?

Thanks!

-- 
Carmel
carmel_ny at hotmail.com



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