Error in pkg mgnt of libintl

Bastian bastian-freebsd-ml at t6l.de
Mon Dec 8 13:53:53 UTC 2014


On 09Dec14 00:39 +1100, andrew clarke wrote:
> On Mon 2014-12-08 14:23:22 UTC+0100, bastian-freebsd-ml at t6l.de (bastian-freebsd-ml at t6l.de) wrote:
> 
> > 109 # vim /etc/inetd.conf 
> > Shared object "libintl.so.9" not found, required by "vim"
> > 
> > Looking into the lib dir, I revealed the existence of libintl.so.8.
> > I guess somehow a downgrade took place, byt I do not know why.
> > 
> > To just help my self in quick and realy ugly way, I created a link,
> > libintl.so.9 -> libintl.so.8   which eventually made vim running agai.
> > (I am totally surpised by that working).
> > 
> > 
> > Can you give me a hint how I can comprehensively solve this problem?
> 
> I can't explain the cause of your missing libintl.so.9, but out of
> curiosity I took a look at my 10.1-REL system, where evidently
> libintl.so.9 is already symlinked to libintl.so.8.
> 
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  104872 2014-12-05 14:17:38 /usr/local/lib/libintl.a
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      16 2014-12-05 14:17:38 /usr/local/lib/libintl.so -> libintl.so.8.1.2
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      16 2014-12-05 14:17:38 /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.8 -> libintl.so.8.1.2
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   55166 2014-12-05 14:17:37 /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.8.1.2
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      12 2014-12-05 14:17:38 /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.9 -> libintl.so.8
> 
> $ pkg which /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.9 
> /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.9 was installed by package gettext-runtime-0.19.3

Yes, here, too. I was very astonished to see that link showing up again,
after I removed it just before the proposed 'pkg upgrade -f'.


Cheers,

-- 
Bastian


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