Martial Bret wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have been using fink 0.3.x for about 3 years, then decide to upgrade
> to 0.6.2. I had many problems to to that, so I "rm /sw", then reinstall
> fink from scratch.
> I had the following "classic" problem when first trying to use gimp
> binary installed package :
>
> fink can't open library: /sw/lib/libdl.0.dylib
>
> A quick search an google later, I installed dlcompat and gimp worked
> well. Then I made some other stuffs, basicly installed xemacs which
> worked wel as well and the tomorrow morning (I missed all what I did), I
> had the same error message again and the following stuff in /sw/lib and
> /usr/local/lib :
>
> ll /sw/lib/libdl* /usr/local/lib/libdl*
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     admin       23708 Nov  7 04:33 /sw/lib/libdl.a
> lrwxr-xr-x   1 root     admin          13 Feb 10 11:28
> /sw/lib/libdl.dylib -> libdl.0.dylib
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     wheel        7688 Oct 16  2001
> /usr/local/lib/libdl.a
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     wheel       13888 Oct 16  2001
> /usr/local/lib/libdl.dylib
>
> I thought that /usr/local/lib/libdl.dylib is a rest of my former fink
> installation and I understood that /sw/lib/libdl.0.dylib was missing. I
> try to uninstall/reinstall dlcompat without success and finally add the
> following link in /sw/lib:
>
> lrwxr-xr-x   1 root     admin          26 Feb 10 11:28
> /sw/lib/libdl.0.dylib -> /usr/local/lib/libdl.dylib
>
> So, now, it works, but I would like to understandw what happens.

You were somehow missing the dlcompat-shlibs package.
/usr/local/lib/libdl.dylib has nothing whatsoever to do with fink, it may
come from an openoffice install or something. Please reinstall dlcompat-dev
and dlcompat-shlibs to ensure that you have the correct one.

Peter
--
Peter O'Gorman - http://www.pogma.com


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