libintl.so.5 not found and general ports question

[Andrew L. Gould]

On Monday 05 April 2004 01:36 pm, Kent Stewart wrote:
> On Monday 05 April 2004 11:27 am, Gerry Freymann wrote:
> > After doing a portupgrade -rf gettext...
> >
> > I went back to trying to install the apsfilter port. It would drop
> > into /print/teTeX and /print/html2ps-letter and stop again with the
> > libintl.so.5 not found error.
> >
> > If I build apsfilter without select HTML (which no longer makes it
> > want teTeX and html2ps-letter) then apsfilter installs OK.
> >
> > Should I report this to the port manager?
>
> No, it means you didn't do a
> portupgrade -rf gettext
>
> and that isn't a portmgr problem.
>
> Kent

The upgrade may have resulted in a later version, as my system is showing a 
libintl.so.6:

> ls /usr/local/lib/libintl.so*
/usr/local/lib/libintl.so       /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.6

What would happen if a link called /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.5 was created to 
point to the existing libintl.so.* file on Gerry's system?

Andrew Gould