libicui18n.so.36 not found, required by "evolution"

[Matthew Seaman]

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E. J. Cerejo wrote:
> Running FBSD 6.3 and after updating the ports where icu was one of the
> ports to be updated I'm getting the libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object
> "libicui18n.so.36" not found, required by "evolution" error, I can see
> that the new version of icu installed "libicui18n.so.38".  Is there a
> better way to fix this or should I just symlink "libicui18n.so.38" to
> "libicui18n.so.36"?

Nope.  Symlinking shlibs of different ABI versions together is the
wrong answer.  There's a reason the ABI version number was bumped,
and it indicates the new shlib is not compatible with the old one.

Formally, the correct fix is:

   # portupgrade -rf icu-\*

or the equivalent in whatever ports management software you prefer.

However this is pretty unfortunate as icu is a basic component that
a large number of packages depend upon.  Expect to spend a long time
compiling.

Oh, and it's a good idea to update as the latest icu fixes some
security problems.  See 

   http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-4770
   http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-4771

   http://secunia.com/advisories/28575/

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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