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"
