Shared object "libintl.so.6" not found

[cpghost]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 08:56:34PM +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 08:19:47AM +0000, Leslie Jensen wrote:
> 
> [...]
> > I've just been through that! Reinstalling gettext won't solve this!
> > 
> > Take a look in
> > 
> > cd /usr/local/lib
> > 
> > And make a link
> > ln -s libintl.so.8 libintl.so.6
> 
> You do realise that doing this will cause gettext dependancies to fail
> in weird an wonderful ways.

It would have been useful if gettext port (or portmaster...)
kept a copy of /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.6 around (in addition
to the new .8). I had to copy that one over from another machine
to get the apps working again until they're all updated (on a
slow 500 MHz desktop machine, updating libintl.so deps takes AGES)...

-cpghost.

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