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  • From: evraire AT tuwg.com
  • To: sm-sorcery AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: RE: [SM-Sorcery] wget .so dependencies (possibly global problem)
  • Date: 4 Feb 2004 17:06:02 -0000

Hi,

> 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 suffered from this too. The way I understand it is gettext and wget both
had a version bump at the same time, and because wget depends on gettext the
latter was compiled first. As you said, this left wget without a shared
library, which means it couldn't download the source code for the new wget,
which means compilation of the new wget (and everything else after gettext)
failed.

I manually fixed the problem by copying libintl.so.3 to libintl.so.2,
summoning wget, then removing libintl.so.2. When I subsequently casted wget
is used the already downloaded source and compiled against the new
libintl.so.3. After this, all my other problems went away.

The only "easy" fix I could think of for this is to have the gettext (and
anything else wget depends on?) summon the wget source /before/ compiling.
In any case, I just thought this little "how-to" might help others get around
the problem.

Jonathan Evraire
evraire at tuwg.com

PS: forgive me if this was already thoroughly discussed on the ML... I'm
still going through the 30+ emails in my inbox one-by-one :)


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