Dan, Thanks for your reply.
> > Again, a port update of a library has bumped a .so version [in this case > > libatk-1.0.so.200 -> libatk-1.0.so.400]. > how did you update the port? ... Or you could run portupgrade -R, which > will upgrade all the packages dependent on the one you list. # portupgrade --new --upward-recursive --recursive --sudo --verbose --all That tends to get everything. > Portupgrade moves old libraries into /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg Sometimes it does, however in cases like this one (ie. atk), it didn't. > > Is there an elegant and quick way to relink a given binary to a > > different version of a particular .so, eg. "mvld foo foo.so.1 > > foo.so.2"? > Version numbers get bumped for a reason :) Running the wrong version > library will usually result in a coredump or runtime linking error. You snipped this bit in my message where I addressed this: >> I'm aware that rebuilding is the right thing to do since stuff can change >> in the libs, however experience from symlinking .so.N to .so.N-n shows >> that this almost never results in problems. Also, >> Is the fact that some libs don't follow the major/minor rules[1] a/the >> problem? >> [1] >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/policies-shlib.html So, I'm still interested in knowing how to do the wrong thing. -Andrew- -- _______________________________________________________________________ | -Andrew J. Caines- Unix Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary | | safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin, 1759 | _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"