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On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 09:45:55AM +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: |
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> Hi, Gentoo! |
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> I try to run xpdf from within Gnome. It doesn't run. On the virtual |
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> terminal, the error message is: |
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> xpdf: error while loading shared libraries: libpoppler.so.5: cannot |
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> open shared object file: No such file or directory |
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> . However there is a library /usr/lib/libpoppler.so.7. |
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> ^ |
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revdep-rebuild ? |
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Seems like poppler has been updated, but xpdf wasn't recompiled yet to |
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use the new lib. |
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> I look in /var/db/pkg/app-text/xpdf-3.02-r4/DEPENDS, and see: |
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> >=app-text/poppler-0.12.3-r3[xpdf-headers] |
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> ^^ ^^^^^^^^^ |
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> I currently have installed poppler-0.14.5-r1, which satisfies DEPENDS. |
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> Presumably, though, it incorporate ....so.7, which is useless for xpdf. |
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> This situation, requiring an older version of a dynamic library, can't |
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> be unheard of. What's the canonical way of getting .....so.5? |
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> As a matter of interest, how do you say, in DEPENDS, that you need a |
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> library _between_ two version numbers rather than just >= than one? |
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> Am I missing anything else important? |
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you can say "&& ( >=something <something)" |
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but my guess is, that xpdf doesn't _need_ the old version of lib, it just needs |
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to be recompiled with the new version... |
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yoyo |