libintl.so.5 not found and general ports question

[Kent Stewart]

On Monday 05 April 2004 11:51 am, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
> On Monday 05 April 2004 01:36 pm, Kent Stewart wrote:
> > On Monday 05 April 2004 11:27 am, Gerry Freymann wrote:
> > > After doing a portupgrade -rf gettext...
> > >
> > > I went back to trying to install the apsfilter port. It would
> > > drop into /print/teTeX and /print/html2ps-letter and stop again
> > > with the libintl.so.5 not found error.
> > >
> > > If I build apsfilter without select HTML (which no longer makes
> > > it want teTeX and html2ps-letter) then apsfilter installs OK.
> > >
> > > Should I report this to the port manager?
> >
> > No, it means you didn't do a
> > portupgrade -rf gettext
> >
> > and that isn't a portmgr problem.
> >
> > Kent
>
> The upgrade may have resulted in a later version, as my system is
> showing a
>
> libintl.so.6:
> > ls /usr/local/lib/libintl.so*
>
> /usr/local/lib/libintl.so       /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.6
>
> 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.

Kent

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