libintl.so.5 issue when installing logrotate

[Olaf Greve]

Hi,
I ran into a rather funny issue (fbsd 5.3-release, i386).
I have an updated ports tree (that is: twice per week cron updates it 
using cvsup).

Now, I tried installing /usr/ports/sysutils/logrotate (make install)
O.k., it failed, mentioning that it required gettext version 0.13 or higher.
No problem, just install that, right?
O.k., so I installed /usr/ports/devel/gettext (make deinstall, make 
reinstall)

All fine so far (it installef version 0.14.1).
Then I tried again to make install the /usr/ports/sysutils/logrotate
and again it failed, this time the error is:
[...]
===  Building for logrotate-3.7_3
/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libintl.so.5 not found
Hmmm, no what can that be?
A quick look-up on Google shows: 
http://tomster.org/geek/freebsdcookbook/tidbits/gettextupgrade

Nice, a chicken and the egg problem: logrotate requires gettext 0.13 
or higher, but when installing that, apparently out goes a required 
library! Duh!

The same page mentions the following:
The solution is to force the upgrade of the already currently installed 
version of gettext (by using the -f option) and doing the upgrade 
recursively (by using the -r option).

I guess this means doing a pkg_add -f -r gettextpkg as opposed to 
make install-ing the port, right?

Now, before doing this (and possibly messing up the installation by 
doing a force install), has anyone already done this, and is this really 
the best solution?

Tnx and cheerz,
Olafo
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Re: libintl.so.5 issue when installing logrotate

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 11:53:52AM +0100, Olaf Greve wrote:
 Hi,
 
 I ran into a rather funny issue (fbsd 5.3-release, i386).
 
 I have an updated ports tree (that is: twice per week cron updates it 
 using cvsup).
 
 Now, I tried installing /usr/ports/sysutils/logrotate (make install)
 
 O.k., it failed, mentioning that it required gettext version 0.13 or higher.
 
 No problem, just install that, right?
 O.k., so I installed /usr/ports/devel/gettext (make deinstall, make 
 reinstall)
 
 All fine so far (it installef version 0.14.1).
 
 Then I tried again to make install the /usr/ports/sysutils/logrotate
 and again it failed, this time the error is:
 [...]
 ===  Building for logrotate-3.7_3
 /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libintl.so.5 not found
 
 Hmmm, no what can that be?
 A quick look-up on Google shows: 
 http://tomster.org/geek/freebsdcookbook/tidbits/gettextupgrade
 
 Nice, a chicken and the egg problem: logrotate requires gettext 0.13 
 or higher, but when installing that, apparently out goes a required 
 library! Duh!

It's probably some other binary that is missing libintl.so.5 (you
probably yanked it out from underneath when doing a previous upgrade -
if you'd used portupgrade, this wouldn't have happened because it
saves copies of the old libraries in case they're still in use).
gmake is a likely candidate; you'd need to rebuild it.  The libchk
port will tell you if any other applications need to be rebuilt.

Kris



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