Missing libintl.so.9

[Gerard E. Seibert]

On Mon, 01 Dec 2014 12:28:33 +0000, Matthew Seaman stated:

>On 12/01/14 11:30, Gerard Seibert wrote:
>> I just tried to update my system and now it it bonked. I followed the
>> directions for "gettext"; however, I cannot reinstall it. I keep
>> receiving an error message that "libintl.s0.9" not found. It is on my
>> system, I checked. It is in "/usr/local/lib". So what is the problem?
>> I am afraid to shut the system down because I am not sure if it will
>> restart.
>
>I just ran into this myself.  A fix I've found is:
>
>    pkg install -f gettext-runtime
>
>Or you can manually create the symbolic link --
>
>   cd /usr/local/lib
>   ln -s libintl.so.8 libintl.so.9
>
>The libintl files in /usr/local/lib should look like this:
>
># ls -la libintl.*
>-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  97760 Nov 30 03:48 libintl.a
>lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     16 Nov 30 03:48 libintl.so@ ->
>libintl.so.8.1.2
>lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     16 Nov 30 03:48 libintl.so.8@ ->
>libintl.so.8.1.2
>-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  50998 Nov 30 03:48 libintl.so.8.1.2
>lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     12 Nov 30 03:48 libintl.so.9@ -> libintl.so.8
>
>That's what the package should have created, and what pkg(8) thinks has
>been installed.  It's a pkg bug that it manages to record incorrect
>information about what was actually written to the filesystem --
>possibly due to the target of the symlink (libintl.so.8) itself being a
>symlink to the actual libintl.so.8.1.2 file.
>
>Note that the gettext port was recently split into gettext-runtime and
>gettext-tools with plain 'gettext' becoming a meta-port that installs
>those two.  Recently as in 'last weekend', and you need packages built
>since that split to see this. ie. it won't hit the FreeBSD pkg repos
>until next weekend.  It's people with private repos and possibly people
>installing from ports that are affected as yet.

I always install from ports. This whole problem arose when I tried to update
the "gettext" port, following the directions in UPDATING.

QUESTION: why does linintl.so.9 have to be linked to libintl.so.8? If they
are identical, why two different names. That seems like a recipe for
confusion. Actually, why any links since they are apparently all
linintl.so.8.1.2, or am I missing something?

I have a slightly different problem now, but I will start a new thread.
Thanks for your help.

-- 
Jerry