libintl.so.5 not found and general ports question

[Joshua Lokken]

* Kent Stewart <kstewart at owt.com> [2004-04-05 12:06]:
> On Monday 05 April 2004 11:51 am, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
> >
> > 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?
> >
> 
> The library interface was changed and cross linking is a really bad 
> idea.


I was able to work around the problem temporarily (on 4-stable) with
the above method (symlink), but Kent is probably right that it's not
an ideal solution.


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Joshua

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