Bug 123769 – dbdesigner doesnt start, it needs libXft.so.1

• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 135731
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Sérgio Luís 2006-02-22 16:48:50 UTC]

dbdesigner doesn't start... log says there's a missing shared library libXft.so.1
xorg 7.0 (and 6.8 i think) dont have this lib, only libXft.so.2

I just copied libXft.so.1 from a redhat server running XFree86 to my laptop (gentoo) and dbdesigner works

[Comment 1 Sérgio Luís 2006-04-02 11:01:55 UTC]

Created attachment 83733 [details]
libXft.so.1

Some people have requested this, so here it is.

[Comment 2 Howard B. Golden 2006-06-25 00:18:01 UTC]

As suggested, I copied the libXft.so.1 attachment to /opt/DBDesigner4/Linuxlib and I am now able to run DBDesigner4. (I am running on an Athlon XP.)

Question: What about compiling the older version of libXft from source? This would give me the warm, fuzzy Gentoo feeling.  ;-)

[Comment 3 Jari-Matti Mäkelä 2006-06-26 07:43:17 UTC]

I'm not sure if it's a more elegant solution, but you can also comment the line

  export CLX_USE_LIBQT=yes

from /opt/DBDesigner4/startdbd script.

[Comment 4 Jari-Matti Mäkelä 2006-06-26 07:50:05 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> I'm not sure if it's a more elegant solution, but you can also comment the line
> 
>   export CLX_USE_LIBQT=yes
> 
> from /opt/DBDesigner4/startdbd script.
> 
Hmm, it also requires you to start it from the application directory.

[Comment 5 Vaclav Slavik 2006-09-13 10:55:59 UTC]

Some other binary-only apps like dev-lang/icc-9.0's iidb also fail on missing libXft.so.1, so it would be nice to have libXft slotted and/or include libXft.so.1 in the build...

[Comment 6 Toralf Förster 2006-11-02 05:17:15 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Created an attachment (id=83733) [edit]
> libXft.so.1
> 
> Some people have requested this, so here it is.
> 

Thanks, this works for me to at least start the app 
:-)

[Comment 7 David Sommerseth 2006-11-02 06:17:23 UTC]

*** Bug 153664 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 8 Alec Warner (RETIRED) 2007-01-24 18:14:30 UTC]

X11, I assume the .so.1 is not compatable with 2?

[Comment 9 Joshua Baergen (RETIRED) 2007-01-25 03:23:17 UTC]

(In reply to comment #8)
> X11, I assume the .so.1 is not compatable with 2?
> 

It might only be ABI-incompatible.

Is this a binary package?  If not, why is it linking directly against .1?

[Comment 10 Alec Warner (RETIRED) 2007-01-25 06:25:49 UTC]

(In reply to comment #9)
> (In reply to comment #8)
> > X11, I assume the .so.1 is not compatable with 2?
> > 
> 
> It might only be ABI-incompatible.
> 
> Is this a binary package?  If not, why is it linking directly against .1?
> 

It's a binary pkg, yes

[Comment 11 t35t0r 2007-02-14 14:52:57 UTC]

This is also needed in Gaussview. I contacted gaussian inc techs and they won't recompile their binaries since they officially support only redhats. A slotted ebuild would be nice. Even RH9 provides both .so.2 and .so.1 versions

[Comment 12 t35t0r 2007-02-14 14:54:23 UTC]

Someone change the topic to "many apps need libXft.so.1"

[Comment 13 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2007-02-14 23:39:05 UTC]

Only packages that are designed to be slotted should be.

[Comment 14 Mark Phipps 2007-02-21 00:41:26 UTC]

FYI: DBDesigner (now called MySQL workbench) is part of the mysql-gui-tools ebuild.  Currently, p9 has code to build it in the ebuild, but it is commented out.

[Comment 15 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-07-31 13:58:26 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 135731 ***