[arch-general] Abiword and wv

[Myra Nelson]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 03:25, Jan de Groot <jan at jgc.homeip.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 02:39 -0500, Myra Nelson wrote:
>> [myra at gandalf abiword
>> unable to find libwv-1.2.so.3
>>
>> My troubleshooting went like this:
>>
>> [myra at gandalf /usr/lib]:locate libwv
>> /usr/lib/libwv-1.2.so.4
>> /usr/lib/libwv-1.2.so.4.0.3
>> /usr/lib/libwv.a
>> /usr/lib/libwv.so
>
> This is because you built your own version of wv. Upstream did a useless
> soname bump without reason, which is why I reverted that (several other
> distributions do that also). This change saves me a bunch of rebuilds,
> but will cause you pain if you didn't stick to official packages.
>
>

Jan:

Cool. No pain associated. I thought that might be the case, but wanted to check.

I learned a long time ago to try rebuilding the package on my box if
something fails
and see if it works as part of troubleshooting a package.

Myra.


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