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[jonathan michaels]

On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 04:18:26PM +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 14:31:58 +1000
> jonathan michaels <jlm at caamora.com.au> wrote:
 
> > On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 01:40:55PM +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote:
> > > On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 10:27:41 +1000
> > > jonathan michaels <jlm at caamora.com.au> wrote:

> > > > /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libintl.so.8" not found, required by "amaya-gtk"

> > > in my box (6.2 STABLE) , it was installed by gettext:

> > > [betom at ayiin] [Fri Aug 10 13:36:21 2007]
> > > /usr/home/betom
> > > $ locate libintl.so.8
> > > /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.8

> > that was teh forst thing that i tired and nothing .. no
> > responce

> > > [betom at ayiin] [Fri Aug 10 13:36:25 2007]
> > > /usr/home/betom
> > > $ pkg_info -W `locate libintl.so.8`
> > > /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.8 was installed by package gettext-0.16.1_3

> > that didn;t shw up much either .. "file is not in PATH"
 
> of course, you haven't got the file in the first place :)
 
> pkg_info -W {file} tells you which package (if any) installed that file. Because it's located under /usr/local/, it is highly likely it was installed by a 3rd party package/port , rather than part of the OS
> 
> > but i checked for "gettext" in teh index-6 and in my version,
> > either jul 2006 or jan 2007 ( freebsd toolkit or jan 2007 ), is
> > a fw revisions earlier than the right one.
> 
> fair enough, i keep mine up to date. you can use 
> 
> locate libintl.so 
> 
> instead , and see if you have any version of libintl installed.
> 
> If you do have a version of libintl in your system, (highly likely if you have gettext installed), then you can try mapping the calls to libintl.so.8 to libintl.so (which should be a soft link to your version of libintl, ie,so.SOMETHING ). You do this by updating /etc/libmap.conf 

i found "usr/local/lib/libintl.so" and "/usr/local/lib/libintl.so.6"

> a line like 
> 
> libintl.so.8    libintl.so

how about 

"libintl.so.8	libintl.so.6"   ??? 
 
> should do the trick.
> 
> TFM is @ man libmap.conf :)

would this live in 

/etc/libmap.conf ?? or in
/usr/local/etc/libmap.conf ?? or somewhereelse ??

> > looks like i'm going to have to upgrad teh whole lot .. grrr.
> > do you know where i can get the whole packages tree ? norberto
> > ?? 

> not necessarily , it may work with updating libmap.conf

this sounds good, very good indeed, thank you

thank you, norberto.

kind regards

jonathan
 
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