gconf2, missing libicui18n.so.34, icu, and portupgrade

[Duane Whitty]

I just want to let everyone know upfront not to take this as a complaint.
I litterally live for figuring this kind of stuff out  :)


I've been bitten a couple of times when try to run previously
working apps and when trying to upgrade apps by the following
message

dwpc@ /home/duane>firefox
/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libicui18n.so.34" not found, required by "gconfd-2"

No problem there I figured, I just need to rebuild some ports.

#portupgrade -rRv icu\*

dwpc@ /usr/ports# portupgrade -rRv icu\*
--->  Session started at: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 20:55:20 -0300
** No need to upgrade 'icu-3.6' (>= icu-3.6). (specify -f to force)
--->  ** Upgrade tasks 78: 0 done, 1 ignored, 0 skipped and 0 failed

[snip]

--->  Upgrade of multimedia/gstreamer-plugins80 started at: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 21:14:29 -0300
--->  Upgrading 'gstreamer-plugins80-0.8.12_3' to 'gstreamer-plugins80-0.8.12_2,1' (multimedia/
gstreamer-plugins80)

[snip]

/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libicui18n.so.34" not found, required by "gconftool-2"

--->  Upgrade of www/mozilla started at: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 21:56:58 -0300^M
--->  Upgrading 'mozilla-1.7.13,2' to 'mozilla-1.7.13_1,2' (www/mozilla)^M
--->  Build of www/mozilla started at: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 21:56:58 -0300

[snip]

install  -o root -g wheel -m 444 /usr/ports/www/mozilla/work/mozilla.desktop  /usr/local/share/
applications^M
===> Building Chrome's registry...^M
/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libicui18n.so.34" not found, required by "gconfd-2"^M
[Now I press ^T]
load: 0.00  cmd: regchrome 26070 [kserel] 0.10u 0.02s 0% 11632k^M^M
[Machine seems to have hung]
[I press ^C]
^C** Command failed [exit code 2]: /usr/bin/script -qa /tmp/portupgrade.30582.3 env PORT_UPGRAD
E=yes make reinstall^M

I thought all of this was a bit strange because our developers don't usually just pull
the rug out from 

I thought all of this was a bit strange because our developers don't usually just pull
the (.so) rug out from under us without doing proper symlinking etc.

Checking it out further, I find this:

dwpc@ /usr/local/lib>ll
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel        18 Oct 15 18:24 libicui18n.so -> libicui18n.so.36.0
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel        18 Oct 15 18:24 libicui18n.so.36 -> libicui18n.so.36.0
-r--r--r--   1 root  wheel   1474969 Oct 15 18:24 libicui18n.so.36.0

I never tell portupgrade to delete obsolete shared libraries so should not
libicui18n.so.34 still be available?

I managed to to gaim upgraded around this so I imagine I'll get everything else
figured out as well.

What I would really like though is to understand how the shared object library linking
works and what, if anything, I should have done differently.

I hope this helps someone else and thanks in advance.

Most Respectfully,

Duane Whitty