Re: Ports : Mozilla / Mozilla-devel

From: Paul Murphy (pnmurphy_at_cogeco.ca)
Date: 10/02/03

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    To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
    
    
    

    On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 11:23:36 -0500
    Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> wrote:

    > In the last episode (Sep 30), Mike Hogsett said:
    > > I have been pulling my hair out over this. I installed a package
    > > several days ago that required gettext. The gettext in ports has
    > > been updated so I had to deinstall the existing on and install the
    > > version from ports.
    > >
    > > After that mozilla and mozilla-devel (and some other stuff) wont run
    > > becuase libintl.so.4 no longer exists. (gettext from ports installs
    > > libintl.so.5 now).
    > >
    > > I pkg_delete'd mozilla and mozilla-devel and rebuilt (have tried
    > > both) but even after they build and install they are still asking
    > > for libintl.so.4!!
    >
    > They may be linking against a shared library that requires
    > libintl.so.4.
    >
    > > I rm -rf'd /usr/ports and cvsup'd back hoping to clear any cruft
    > > that may have remained and rebuilt mozilla-devel, still no dice!
    > >
    > > Anyone have a suggestion how I can get either of these ports to work
    > > again?
    >
    > At this point, you'll probably have to rebuild all the ports that
    > depended on the old gettext. The portupgrade tools minimize this risk
    > by preserving old shlibs in /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg, so you can
    > upgrade dependant ports at your leisure.
    >

     Before upgrading just about _everything_ (which you will do if you
    upgrade dependencies in gettext) try upgrading your GNOME-ish ports, I
    found these were the holdouts when doing as you originally did.

    -- 
    Cogeco ergo sum
    
    



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