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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: upgrading PCRE breaks Konqueror (KDE-3.5 branch)
From:       "Gary L. Greene, Jr." <greeneg () tolharadys ! net>
Date:       2007-05-24 14:27:22
Message-ID: 200705240727.27699.greeneg () tolharadys ! net
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On Thursday 24 May 2007 05:18, Matt Rogers wrote:
> On May 23, 2007, at 11:22 PM, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> > Matt Rogers wrote:
> >> On Wednesday 23 May 2007 16:39, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> >>> I upgraded PCRE to 7.1 and Konqueror won't start from the menu.
> >>>
> >>> I get the error message:
> >>>
> >>> There was an error loading the module About-Page for Konqueror.
> >>> The diagnostics is:
> >>> /usr/lib/libpcreposix.so.0: undefined symbol: pcre_compile2
> >>>
> >>> However, opening it from the command line in a Konsole works.
> >>>
> >>> This appears to be a binary compatibility issue.  I quote from:
> >>>
> >>> http://cluedenver.org/pipermail/clue-tech/2005-July/000023.html
> >>>
> >>> The latest PCRE does provide pcre_compile2 -- it adds a new pointer
> >>> argument (the 3rd int *
> >>> argument) for returning error numbers (per the documentation).
> >>>
> >>> I think that this refers to the 6.x version of PCRE.  This
> >>> appears to be
> >>> an old problem.
> >>
> >> did you restart kdeinit after installing your new PCRE?
> >
> > By now, I have rebooted and the problem persists.
>
> I see two options now. Either downgrade your PCRE or rebuild all of KDE.
> --
> Matt
>
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JRT,
I don't know what's up with your system, since I'm on the KDE 3.5.4 which was 
built against PCRE 6.5, and recently upgraded to the latest PCRE, and haven't 
rebuilt KDE yet (but I will be soon as I upgrade to 3.5.7) and I'm not seeing 
this issue. How was KDE compiled?

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Gary L. Greene, Jr.
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