Missing libicui18n.so.34

[Roger Merritt]

At 09:27 AM 12/1/2006 +0700, you wrote:
>I'm running 6.1-STABLE, and a few days ago cvsup'ed and tried portupgrade.
>
>Portupgrade failed on some of xfce4's components. Checking xfce4-print and 
>xfce4-desktop's output, I have the error message:
>
>libicui18n.so.34, needed by /usr/local/lib/libglib-2.0.so not found (try 
>using -rpath or -rpath-link)
>
>So, checking for the library I first tried 'locate libicui18n.so.34' and got:
>
>/usr/local/lib/libicui18n.so.34
>/usr/local/lib/libicui18n.so.34.1
>
>but when I ran 'find /usr/local/lib -name libicui18n.so.34' it doesn't 
>find anything. Apparently something deleted the library since the last 
>time 'locate' updated its database.
>
>OK, so 'ls -l /usr/local/lib/libicui18n*' gives me:
>
>
>lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel        18 Oct 15 18:24 libicui18n.so -> 
>libicui18n.so.36.0
>lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel        18 Oct 15 18:24 libicui18n.so.36 -> 
>libicui18n.so.36.0
>-r--r--r--   1 root  wheel   1474969 Oct 15 18:24 libicui18n.so.36.0
>
>
>Apparently the library libicui18n.so.XX is installed by something called 
>icu. I don't know what it is, but the latest version is icu-36, and it 
>installed libicui18n.so.36.0, made links to it, and may have deleted 
>libicui18n.so.34 at the same time. Should I try creating a link named 
>'libicui18n.so.34' to 'libicui18n.so.36.0'?
>
>One problem I have is that I don't understand the suggestion in the error 
>message, "try using -rpath or -rpath-link", and Google isn't helping me.

Well, creating a symlink named libicui18n.so.34 didn't help. In fact, when 
I ran 'portupgrade xfce4-print' it deleted the symlink.


-- 
Roger