pcre library linking issues

[Greg Larkin]

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On 4/19/12 11:28 AM, Lars Eighner wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Apr 2012, Aleksandr Miroslav wrote:
> 
>> I inadvertently updated my PCRE library and in the process broke
>> a number of things that depended on the old library.
>> 
> Not the right answer but works:
> 
> Create a symbolic link in the library so libpcre.so.0 points to 
> libpcre.so.1
> 
> The old library should have been moved to a compatibility library
> so that things that still depended on it could find it.  This did
> not happen for some reason.  Fortunately, it appears that
> libpcre.so.1 is (largely) backwards compatible, so much (all?) of
> what depended on it will work if fooled by a symbolic link.  Some
> upgrades will wipe out the link so it may be necessary to recreate
> it until things get straightened out.
> 

Another option that works well is the /etc/libmap.conf file:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=libmap.conf

Hope that helps,
Greg
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