Sometimes placing symlink to the newer version of library instead of older version helps.
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 11:06 PM, Polytropon <free...@edvax.de> wrote: > On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 00:06:44 +0530, Manish Jain wrote: >> >> Hello Polytropon, >> >> Thanks for replying. >> >> > Maybe an update of FF and TB would be sufficient, so it can link >> > to the present (or at least expected) libraries accordingly. >> >> Maybe I did not make it clear enough in the original message. The only >> thing I installed from the installation DVD was the OS and the GNOME2 >> metaport. Everything else including FF and TB was installed from ports, >> the tarball of which I downloaded just a couple of days back. I hope you >> are not suggesting that I build the GNOME2 metaport too from the ports >> directory : with my internet connection, that really would take me into >> the next century. > > Exactly that would have been the preferred solution. :-) > > > >> > You should not manually copy things. At some point, something will >> > crash, and the ports infrastructure cannot take care of it. It's >> > easier to use a port management tool (like portmaster) to deal >> > with installing and updating of ports. >> >> For the present issue, it seems logical that I would need 2 versions of >> libpng : one for GNOME and one for the ports being installed. Having the >> two versions reside independently in /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib seems >> to be the only way out. I still must admit that it defeats the purpose >> of having port management tools. > > It also blurs the line between OS (/usr/lib) and additional > software (/usr/local/lib) directories. However, both directories > are used by the linker, so it looks possible (and probably better > than messing with symlinks in /usr/local/lib). Problems _might_ > occur when updating world. > > > > > > -- > Polytropon > Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" -- Best regards, Alex Alexeev http://twitter.com/afiskon _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"