On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 10:53:32AM +0100, Leroy van Logchem wrote: > Hi all, > > Few days ago I port installed firefox-1.0,1 which didnt start because it > wanted to have .399 pango libaries while I have .600's. > Just symlinking does work but what's the most proper method of handling > binaries which require other versions? > > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 Nov 11 10:56 libpangoxft-1.0.399 -> > libpangoxft-1.0.so.600 > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 Nov 11 10:57 libpangoxft-1.0.so.399 > -> libpangoxft-1.0.so.600 > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 20 Nov 11 10:58 libpangox-1.0.so.399 -> > libpangox-1.0.so.600 > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 19 Nov 11 10:59 libpango-1.0.so.399 -> > libpango-1.0.so.600 > > (Running 4.10-RELEASE-p3 running xfce-3.8)
Use an upgrade tool that preserves the old libraries when upgrading (e.g. portupgrade) "Just symlinking" will cause problems in some cases, because after all the new library is not the same as the old, and is usually incompatible in some way. Kris
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