ImageMagick not building

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 11:50:55AM -0000, Simon Gray wrote:
> > ===>  Building for ImageMagick-5.5.7.11_1
> > /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libintl.so.2" not found
> > *** Error code 1
> >
> > Stop in /usr/ports/graphics/ImageMagick.
> 
> I had a similar problem quite a while ago, its easily fixed tho
> 
> go in to 'cd /usr/local/lib' and do 'ls -la libintl*'
> 
> you should have something like libintl.so or libintl.so.4 or libintl.so.5
> 
> all you need to do is create a symlink from the libintl.so library to
> libintl.so.2
> 
> so do 'ln -s libintl.so.5 libintl.so.2' (change the libintl.so.5 to the
> appropirate from the previous ls)

Don't give bogus advice - library major versions are bumped for a
reason, and if you hack around it like this then you're exposing
yourself to problems at runtime in applications that rely on the new
features of the library.

Kris
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