port upgrade problem: libncurses.so.5.6 not found

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 08:12:49AM -0800, tfcheng at gmail.com wrote:
> learned a new thing, here is the output:
> /usr/local/bin/xgettext:
> libgettextsrc-0.17.so => /usr/local/lib/libgettextsrc-0.17.so (0x280a9000)
> libgettextlib-0.17.so => /usr/local/lib/libgettextlib-0.17.so (0x280de000)
> libcroco-0.6.so.3 => /usr/local/lib/libcroco-0.6.so.3 (0x281bb000)
> libxml2.so.5 => /usr/local/lib/libxml2.so.5 (0x281ef000)
> libz.so.4 => /lib/libz.so.4 (0x2831b000)
> libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5 (0x2832d000)
> libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x28342000)
> libicui18n.so.38 => /usr/local/lib/libicui18n.so.38 (0x283f1000)
> libintl.so.8 => /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.8 (0x28559000)
> libpcre.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libpcre.so.0 (0x28562000)
> libncurses.so.5.6 => not found (0x0)
> libiconv.so.3 => /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.3 (0x28591000)
> libbsdxml.so.3 => /lib/libbsdxml.so.3 (0x28685000)
> libc.so.7 => /lib/libc.so.7 (0x286a3000)
> libncurses.so.5.6 => not found (0x0)
> libicuuc.so.38 => /usr/local/lib/libicuuc.so.38 (0x287a4000)
> libicudata.so.38 => /usr/local/lib/libicudata.so.38 (0x288b9000)
> libstdc++.so.5 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 (0x29390000)
> libm.so.4 => /lib/libm.so.4 (0x2945b000)
>
> it's weird that it still shows libncurses.so.5.6, any thoughts?? thanks!!

It's not weird at all.  When a binary is linked to a shared library
(during the linking phase), the library filename (libXXX.so.X.X) is
stored in the binary, not "libXXX.so".

I'm not sure how/why a rebuild xgettext is linking to what appears to be
a very old version of libncurses.  libncurses.so.5.6 would be for
FreeBSD 5.x, I believe; my FreeBSD 6.x machines have libncurses.so.6,
and my FreeBSD 7.x + CURRENT machines have libncurses.so.7.

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