Subject: Re: pine 4.20 success...sort of...
To: Brian D Chase <bdc@world.std.com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@mono.org>
List: port-vax
Date: 11/11/1999 15:11:01
	Apologies - this is a little ambiguous. As I understand it
	Anders had the libpico.so problems with the pine from pkgsrc,
	then compiled up pine direct from washinton.edu.

	I'm trying to determine why the pkgsrc version has the libpico.so
	problem.

		David/absolute

On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Brian D Chase wrote:

> I'd sort of gotten the opinion that Anders had compiled up pine using just
> the source as distributed by washington.edu.  The compiled version you're
> looking at is version 4.10 from pkgsrc.  I'll let David evangelize the
> benefits of using pkgsrc, but it looks like Anders is just trying to
> get the vanilla pine distribution running yes?  
> 
> Is it possible that he compiled up pine with dynamic libraries but that
> libpico.so.* didn't get installed into the dynamic library path?  The
> error message he got wasn't very clear, it just looks like something
> exploded somewhere.
> 
> -brian.
> 
> 
> On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, David Brownlee wrote:
> 
> > 	Hmm, it looks OK to me - the pico package contains the library:
> > 	
> > nbftp: {9} tar tvzf /pub/NetBSD/packages/1.4.1/vax/All/pico-3.5.tgz|grep lib
> > -rw-r--r-- root/wheel   179896 Aug 20 15:16 1999 lib/libpico.a
> > -r--r--r-- root/wheel   152233 Aug 20 15:16 1999 lib/libpico.so.2.0
> > 
> > 	and the +CONTENTS file in the pine package defines the dependancy
> > 	on the pico package:
> > 
> > nbftp: {16} tar xvzf /pub/NetBSD/packages/1.4.1/vax/All/pine-4.10.tgz
> > nbftp: {17} egrep @pkgdep +CONTENTS
> > @pkgdep pico-3.5
> > 
> > 	You did use pkg_add to install pine? Maybe there is a problem
> > 	in the package tools...
> > 
> > 		David/absolute
> 
> 
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