On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 01:10:27PM -0700, Darren Pilgrim wrote: > I have a desktop running 5.1+KDE. Building a port (finance/gnucash) > failed when the install of a fresh gettext build failed due to there > being an older version already present. To fix this, I cd into > devel/gettext, run make deinstall && make reinstall. > > But now I have programs and other libs refusing to load (PHP, cyrus, > sylpheed, et al). I get errors stating that libintl.so.4 could not be > found. A check of/usr/local/lib shows a libintl.so.5 with libintl.so > symlinked to it, but no libintl.so.4. Symlinking libintl.so.4 to .5 > seems to have at least made it possible for everything to load again. > > I'm wondering, though, why this happened? Is there is a "more correct" > way to fix the problem? Is this risk taken when one upgrades a > massively interdependent set of installed ports?
This is a FAQ. portupgrade -R gettext, or see the archives for extensive discussion. Kris
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