skype4 does not work on -current

[Anton Shterenlikht]

>From oleg at theweb.org.ua Fri Aug 14 16:43:26 2015
>> 
>> I'm now on 11.0-CURRENT #1 r286741 with
>> 
>> # pkg info -xo skype
>> linux-skype_oss_wrapper-0.1.1  audio/linux-skype_oss_wrapper
>> skype4-4.3.0.37,1
>> 
>> # pkg info -xo pwcview webc
>> pwcview-1.4.1_6                multimedia/pwcview
>> webcamd-3.18.0.1               multimedia/webcamd
>> 
>> # ls -la /dev/video0
>> crw-rw----  1 webcamd  webcamd  0x58 Aug 14 10:36 /dev/video0
>> 
>> I can make the camera work with pwcview,
>> however, when I try to launch skype, I get
>> 
>> skype
>> /usr/local/share/skype/skype: error while loading shared libraries:
>> libpulse-mainloop-glib.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such
>> file or directory
>
> Yes it is broken after 64 bit linuxulator commit ( 
>https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/393817 ). This commit includes 
>update for www/linux-c6-qt47-webkit and x11-toolkits/linux-c6-qt47-x11 ports 
>with overlooked dependency on pulseaudio linux libraries; this is why you got 
>runtime error for skype4.
> The possible solution is to get revision 393816 of ports tree and install 
>skype4 binary using this tree.
>
> I think that freebsd-emulation@ is better place to ask various questions 
>related to net-im/skype4 port.

As suggest, asking for help here.

Somebody mentioned an alternative is to install a virtual
machine on freebsd, then linux and then a linux skype binary.
Am I talking rubbish, or is this a reasonable solution?

I'll try r393816 too.

Thanks

Anton