Just ran into a small issue with ports (as of 2011-02-12, 8.1R-p2, amd64). I upgraded www/firefox35 from .15 to .16 and it failed to build. There was a lot of angst when, after a reboot, other things that were already installed failed to run, like slim and gkrellm2 and whatnot.
The short of it is that the errors I was getting pointed to the system not being able to see libicui18n.so.38 even though "it" was there in /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg.
I finally saw and fixed it by linking libicui18n.so.38.1 to libicui18n.so.38. Did the same for libicudata.so.38.1 and libicuuc.so.38.1. I don't normally like to do this but I've seen lots of such linking in places like /usr/lib and thought what the heck.
Suspect something upgraded the .so libs but didn't re-create the subsequent needed symlink. Things work now, improperly or otherwise...
sa
The short of it is that the errors I was getting pointed to the system not being able to see libicui18n.so.38 even though "it" was there in /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg.
I finally saw and fixed it by linking libicui18n.so.38.1 to libicui18n.so.38. Did the same for libicudata.so.38.1 and libicuuc.so.38.1. I don't normally like to do this but I've seen lots of such linking in places like /usr/lib and thought what the heck.
Suspect something upgraded the .so libs but didn't re-create the subsequent needed symlink. Things work now, improperly or otherwise...
sa
