Ziller, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Making a simple symlink from libexpat.so.4 to libexpat.so.5 will allow xterm
to run again - but of course that's a dirty disgusting way to do things.
From what I understood, pkgdb is the tool to fix this, but running pkgdb -F
will not prompt me to
: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: Dependency hell
Ziller, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Making a simple symlink from libexpat.so.4 to libexpat.so.5 will allow
xterm to run again - but of course that's a dirty disgusting way to do
things. From what I understood, pkgdb is the tool to fix
In the last episode (Apr 19), Ziller, James said:
So in other words I do have to recompile everything that depends on a
given library just because that library is updated to a slightly
newer version? :(
If you want those dependant programs to use the new library, yes. It's
not required
Ziller, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So in other words I do have to recompile everything that depends on a given
library just because that library is updated to a slightly newer version?:(
Yes. The developers of the library chose not to maintain backward
compatibility. Fortunately, this
On Apr 19, 2004, at 10:28 AM, Ziller, James wrote:
So in other words I do have to recompile everything that depends on a
given
library just because that library is updated to a slightly newer
version?:(
Well, you could simply use the old version of the library.
It's not especially hard to write
should be a symlink to the version of the library that's installed)?
Thanks for the responses,
James
-Original Message-
From: Charles Swiger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 1:18 PM
To: Ziller, James
Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: Dependency hell
On Apr 19, 2004
, 2004 1:18 PM
To: Ziller, James
Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: Dependency hell
On Apr 19, 2004, at 10:28 AM, Ziller, James wrote:
So in other words I do have to recompile everything that depends on a
given
library just because that library is updated to a slightly newer
On Apr 19, 2004, at 2:34 PM, Ziller, James wrote:
So then is there a way that the ports/package system can automatically
handle replacing libfoo.so.3 with libfoo.so.4, so that packages
compiled to
use libfoo.so.3 can use libfoo.so.4 instead (assuming the new version
is
backward compatable)?
If
, James
Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: Dependency hell
On Apr 19, 2004, at 2:34 PM, Ziller, James wrote:
So then is there a way that the ports/package system can automatically
handle replacing libfoo.so.3 with libfoo.so.4, so that packages
compiled to use libfoo.so.3 can use libfoo.so.4
