Shared object "libintl.so.6" not found

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Mar 20), cpghost said:
> 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)...

Portupgrade saves old versions of shared libraries in
/usr/local/lib/compat/pkg/ whenever it updates a port, btw.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com