From kde-devel  Tue Jun 22 07:15:17 2004
From: James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj () acm ! org>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 07:15:17 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: freetype2 detection
Message-Id: <40D7DC85.3060802 () acm ! org>
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Ferdinand Gassauer wrote:
> Hi!
> How can I tweak the detection process of libfreetype to read/check /usr/local 
> before /usr ?
> 
> IMHO a question of the kde detection path 
> 
> I always install additional and/or newer software in /usr/local to not corrupt 
> the isntalled system.

You shouldn't need to do that.  What you MUST do is be certain that you only 
have one: "libfreetype.so" link on your system.  That is what the linker uses to 
determine which one to use.  If you have more than one, delete the old ones, or 
if you have old versions of the libraries installed from RPMs, uninstall the old 
'devel' packages.

This should, but might not, fix the problem.

OTOH, unless you have some sort of version dependency, you shouldn't need the 
old versions and could remove them.  In any case, you shouldn't have more than 
one link named: "libfreetype.so.6" on your system since it will cause problems 
at run time -- how are you determining that LD.SO will find the one that you want?

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JRT

 
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