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  • From: Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
  • To: SourceMage Sorcery List <sm-sorcery AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Sorcery] wget .so dependencies (possibly global problem)
  • Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 14:15:22 +0100

On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 08:14:24AM -0500, Paul wrote:
> Did cast --fix detect the problem?

It did detect and fix it fine on my system for wget and fetchmail, which
were the only ones affected by this.
It seems to be a bit different on some systems, e.g. on IRC someone had
the problem that 'make' was linked to libintl, so the recast failed.

> On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 08:08, Robin Cook wrote:
> > I have had this problem on 4 different machines so far. On everyone on
> > of them just recasting wget fixed the problem (of course it wasn't
> > trying to upgrade wget either.)
> >
> > CuZnDragon
> > Robin Cook
> >
> > On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 07:06, Paul wrote:
> > > cast --fix is supposed to detect and fix these problems. Most spells
> > > aren't as problematic as wget, since if --fix finds a problem with wget,
> > > it can't very well d/l sources to recompile can it ;)
> > >
> > > Anyhow, when I upgraded gettext, I didn't have any errors. Another
> > > person on IRC did. I've no idea why... however I did write a little tool
> > > that would check all binaries and libs installed by a spell and make
> > > sure that all the libs needed are provided by a spell that it depends
> > > on. afraydknot has it and will likely be integrating it with his
> > > prometheus work.
> > >
> > > On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 07:00, Ondra Tomecka wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > I just updated few spells, gettext as one of them. Gettext updated
> > > > library
> > > > libintl.so from libintl.so.2 to libintl.so.3. I would not expect this
> > > > to
> > > > cause any problems, as file libintl.so still exists and correctly
> > > > points
> > > > to new version. However, I tried to summon some other spell, and wget
> > > > failed with message that it cannot find libintl.so.2 (which it cannot
> > > > becase it's not there anymore).
> > > >
> > > > I made a little research with ldd to find out that there are lot of
> > > > spells
> > > > which expect exact major version of library (which is understandable
> > > > as
> > > > change in major version usually means ABI change), but this means
> > > > that
> > > > upgrade of major version of shared library can break lots of programs
> > > > at
> > > > once if it deletes previous version.
> > > >
> > > > One possible solution for this can be to recompile all spells which
> > > > use
> > > > the upgraded library, but I'm afraid that this could possibly be
> > > > terribly
> > > > time-consuming.
> > > >
> > > > Another possibility would be to leave previous version available, and
> > > > add
> > > > it to list of files of the spell which installs new version, so it
> > > > would
> > > > still be tracked by sorcery. And possibly check if existing older
> > > > versions
> > > > are still being used by some spell, which would be probably very slow
> > > > too.
> > > > Or add sorcery subcommand to check for unused older versions and
> > > > remove
> > > > them ;-)
> > > >
> > > > The more I think about it, the more I like the latter option with
> > > > added
> > > > subcommand to sorcery. Only bad thing about it is a lot of work which
> > > > it
> > > > would require...
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Any thoughts about this?
> > > >
> > > > Andy
> >
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