w3 web browser on freebsd v6.2-R

[Norberto Meijome]

On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 18:04:07 +1000
jonathan michaels <jlm at caamora.com.au> wrote:

[....]

> > 
> > > 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"

yes, a few -RELEASE boxen i manage have that too

> 
> how about 
> 
> "libintl.so.8	libintl.so.6"   ??? 

sure - but if / when u upgrade libintl.so.6 to, say, .7. or .8, it will break. .so (no version @ end) will still be there.

>  
> > 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 ??
> 

good point, never tried with /usr/local/etc - it is /etc/libmap.conf , from the man page:
FILES
     /etc/libmap.conf    The libmap configuration file.
     /etc/libmap32.conf  The libmap configuration file for 32-bit binaries on
                         64-bit system.


Best,
B
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