Bug 12770 – libgal link problems... upgrading galeon can break evolution

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Michael S Costello (MiscRat) 2002-12-27 02:08:36 UTC]

evolution if compiled with earlier galeon html component support (1.20 version)
will then fail to run with the following error message.

evolution: error while loading shared libraries: libgal.so.20: cannot open
shared object file: No such file or directory

my current libgal is actually libgal.so.21 because of a recent galeon upgrade...
this was done through portage system... 

Debian folks have been complaining about this as well...

[Comment 1 Michael S Costello (MiscRat) 2002-12-27 08:26:26 UTC]

A workaround involves setting the libgal symlink manually for me.

fraterm root # ls -al /usr/lib/libgal*
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      1931722 Dec 26 20:47 /usr/lib/libgal.a
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          843 Dec 26 20:47 /usr/lib/libgal.la
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           16 Dec 26 20:47 /usr/lib/libgal.so -> li
bgal.so.21.1.0
lrwxr-xr-x    1 root     root           12 Dec 27 07:57 /usr/lib/libgal.so.20 ->
 libgal.so.21
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           16 Dec 26 20:47 /usr/lib/libgal.so.21 ->
 libgal.so.21.1.0
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      1350894 Dec 26 20:47 /usr/lib/libgal.so.21.1.
0


So that I can check my email.

[Comment 2 Michael S Costello (MiscRat) 2002-12-27 08:33:54 UTC]

Almost forgot Version Info.

Galeon Version 1.2.7
Evolution Version 1.0.8

my arch is set to ~x86
so I'm getting what i deserve :)

[Comment 3 foser (RETIRED) 2003-01-07 09:39:11 UTC]

another resolution is recompiling the failing app. We do provide one backwards
link. Don't think theres much more we can do about it.

[Comment 4 foser (RETIRED) 2003-01-23 07:03:09 UTC]

see above

[Comment 5 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) 2003-04-04 01:22:43 UTC]

db fix

[Comment 6 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) 2003-04-04 01:27:36 UTC]

db fix