/usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libintl.so.4" not found

[Joseph Begumisa]

On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Odhiambo Washington wrote:

> Hi people,
>
> I lost my hard disk (no backups) yesterday and now I am the most miserable
> man on earth!
> I have installed FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE. I have installed X, which is running
> fine, but I have tried installing mozilla, gaim, evolution, and a few others,
> all of which fails with the message:
>
> /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libintl.so.4" not found
>
> I would like to know how to get this libintl.so.4 into the system so that
> these apps can compile. Howdy?
>

hi,

i encountered such a problem a few weeks back and this link below was
helpful. take a look.  the answer lies in upgrading gettext and all of
the ports that depend on it.

http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?threadid=13526

cheers,

Joseph.