Can't run "mc"

[Demontager]

I switched from php 5.4 to php 5.3, then i tried to run mc and found this:

#mc Shared object "libpcre.so.0" not found, required by "libglib-2.0.so.0"

Currently i got pcre-8.32 installed, tried to reinstall it - not helped. Then performed

portmaster -r pcre

it reinstalled all depended packages, but unfortunately didn't resolve problem.

ldd /usr/local/bin/mc
/usr/local/bin/mc:
	libslang.so.2 => /usr/local/lib/libslang.so.2 (0x28173000)
	libncurses.so.8 => /lib/libncurses.so.8 (0x28278000)
	libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x282b8000)
	libintl.so.9 => /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.9 (0x2838b000)
	libiconv.so.3 => /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.3 (0x28394000)
	libpcre.so.3 => /usr/local/lib/libpcre.so.3 (0x2848c000)
	libthr.so.3 => /lib/libthr.so.3 (0x284ec000)
	libc.so.7 => /lib/libc.so.7 (0x2850d000)
	libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5 (0x28635000)
	libpcre.so.0 => not found (0)

 

[cpm@]

Please, read this thread for solution (pay attention at comment #2).

 

[Demontager]

I may say problem resolved, but in unusual way.
I followed given topic and tried to remove all pcre packages first, then installed binary 8.20, then run

portmaster -r pcre

and it updated pcre to 8.32, tried to run mc - failed with same error as before.
I manually created symlink, but not of libpcre.so.1 and libpcre.so.3, as *.1 gave no effect.

cd /usr/local/lib && ln -s libpcre.so.3 libpcre.so.0

Now mc runs at works.

 

[wblock@]

You still have software depending on that old library. Faking it with a symlink pretty much guarantees problems in the future. Please, just rebuild the software that depends on it and remove that symlink.

 

[fonz]

Symlinking shared library files is pretty much a last-ditch method and often indicative of bad dependency management. There are occasionally reasons for doing this, but it is likely to blow up in your face sooner or later.

Fonz

 

[Demontager]

Yeah, I know. Before i tried to do so, assume i missed something. Deleted symlink and still fighting with as i have not production server and may experement even brake everything.

 

[kpa]

The portmaster -r pcre may miss some of the ports that depend on devel/pcre, ports-mgmt/portmaster is a good tool but it can't detect the reverse dependencies if the port revisions of the dependent ports have not been bumped. You'll have to recompile misc/mc yourself after updating the devel/pcre port:

# portmaster misc/mc