[arch-general] digikam doesn't find libIlmImf.so.6 after update to openexr

[phanisvara]

On Saturday 13 Oct 2012 10:44:57 Florian Pritz wrote:
> > digikam: error while loading shared libraries: libIlmImf.so.6: cannot
> > open 
> > shared object file: No such file or directory
> >
> > 
> >
> > /usr/lib/libIlmImf.so.6 used to be provided by openexr; now it's called 
> > libIlmImf.so.7 instead. providing a symlink with the old name, pointing to
> > the  new one solved the problem.
> 
> Symlinks are NOT a solution, they are a very dirty hack and can blow up
> in your face. There is a reason why upstream developers change version
> numbers and this reason is that the new library is not compatible with
> the old one.
> 
> Just rebuild the program using the library against the new version and
> you won't run into any trouble.

of course, but i expected this to be fixed soon, and it was: another update to 
gegl, kdebase, kdebase-runtime, kdelibs, and opencv solved the problem (not 
sure which one).

in the meantime, the dirty hack let me use digikam, and it didn't blow up in 
my face. if it had, i'd have known whom to thank for, of course.

if i wanted to compile everything myself i'd be running gentoo.

-- 
phani.