On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 11:06 PM, Polytropon <free...@edvax.de> wrote:
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, ...
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> Sometimes placing symlink to the newer version of library instead of
> older version helps.
>
There is only one symlink (/usr/local/bin/libpng.so) and it points to
the newer version.
Regards,
Manish Jain
bourne.ident...@hotmail.com
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