[6981] in testers
Re: 9.4 Linux problems due to duplicated libs in /usr/lib,
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon May 16 12:35:55 2005
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
Cc: testers@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200505160540.j4G5eNV7001396@dit.mit.edu>
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Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 12:35:33 -0400
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On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 01:40 -0400, Alex T Prengel wrote:
> It seems that a substantial number of gnome libraries (and possibly
> others) are duplicated in /usr/lib and /usr/athena/lib, but with older
> versions in the latter- I presume because in 9.3 they weren't part of
> the RedHat release (or our version thereof, anyway), but in 9.4 they
> are.
Please be more specific. Athena 9.4 has GNOME 2.8.3, which is not the
absolute latest version of GNOME, but appears to be slightly more recent
than the version in RHEL 4.
At any rate, this situation would not be new in 9.4. For instance, the
9.3 release had gtk 2.2.1, while RHEL 3 had gtk 2.2.4, and at least one
person reported difficulty compiling an application which required gtk
2.2.2 or later.
> I think the right thing to do is to remove from /usr/athena/lib (and
> /usr/athena/include, /usr/athena/bin etc.) all libraries and binaries for
> which newer versions are now included in the RedHat release.
GNOME does not behave if some of its libraries are built with different
prefixes than others, so we cannot simply remove libraries which are
provided by Red Hat.
