On Sep 25, 2004, at 8:56 PM, Aron Trauring wrote:
Since it had worked for me once before I used the i-Installer (for TeX) to install Freetype2. But when I installed nicotine it crashed on libfreetype. So I removed the i-installer libraries (which as far as I could see were in /usr/local/lib) and tried installing freetype2 from Fink. Now nicotine crashed saying /usr/local/lib/freetype2... was missing. Since I had just installed it anyway on this new machine (an iMac G5) I actually did a total new install of Fink and a source install of nicotine from scratch (after installing freetype through Fink). Again nicotine crashed, but then I noticed there is a libfreetype.6 library in /usr/X11R6/lib/, which was version 6.3 instead of 6.3.2 which is what Fink has. So I did a softlink from /usr/X11R6/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib to the 6.3.2. libraries in /sw/lib/ and now nicotine works fine.
My questions are:
1. does anybody know if it was i-installer that put those libraries in /usr/X11R6/lib
Most likely no.
2. if not how did they get there?
They are part of recent X11 installations.
3. If freetype gets upgraded again in future, is there anyway for me to make sure the fink libraries are used instead of the ones in X11R6
Actually, it's the other way around: Fink would like to phase out the separate freetype* packages in favor of the libraries that are part of X11.
In other words, I don't know if it was me that made this mess in the first place, but anyone have a cleaner solution than my soft link kludge?
BTW, thanks for solving the gnucash problem. The thing is that Fink installs gtkhtml1.1-shlibs, but apparently Gnucash is linked to the 1.0.2 libraries which are gtkhtml-shlibs.
-- Alexander K. Hansen Fink Documentarian Day Job: Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX
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