Shared Object Woes (or, why I shouldn't play in the ports tree)

[Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.]

Edward Aronyk wrote:

>Just a heads up: I did a search of the archives before posting this and
>found several posts that sort of answer my question, but none that
>answer it completely so I am posting this. If my question has been
>answered elsewhere I am sorry for wasting your time and only ask that
>someone direct me to where I can find an answer.
>
>System details in case they help:
>FreeBSD 4.8 (RELENG_4_8)
>Compaq Proliant 1600R with SMP
>Raid using the ida driver
>
>A little while ago I wanted to install gkrellm2 from ports with the
>server only option(GKRELLM_SERVER_ONLY=yes) as X isn't installed on the
>server. While doing this I encountered errors that said I would need to
>deinstall expat and gettext then install the new versions. I dutifully
>complied and was rather horrified at the state my system was left in. A
>bunch of applications (like nano) complained about not finding
>libintl.so.X. I followed the advice in the archives and recompiled the
>affected programs and they seem to work now.
>
>However, when I return to my build of gkrellm2 I encounter the same
>problems as before. The build dies with this error message:
>
>########################################################
>===>  Configuring for gkrellm-2.1.28_2
>===>  Building for gkrellm-2.1.28_2
>/usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libintl.so.5" not found
>*** Error code 1
> 
>Stop in /usr/ports/sysutils/gkrellm2.
>########################################################
>
>I don't understand what I would recompile in order to fix this.
>
>Also, my apache is complaining about not being able to find
>libexpat.so.4 when I try to use apachectl. I can only conclude that if I
>were ever to attempt to restart apache in it's current condition the
>operation would fail. Since this is a production server I'm a little
>concerned about messing with anything. Is the only solution to this a
>recompile of apache?
>
>Also, how do I avoid this in the future? Just leave any ports that could
>cause damage if they're removed in place? Is there a better way?
>
>Thanks for your time,
>Edward Aronyk
>
>  
>
I believe, but cannot authoritatively say,
that you've been bitten by the new expat ...

Please see /usr/ports/UPDATING for authoritative
information.

Kevin Kinsey