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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: upgrading PCRE breaks Konqueror (KDE-3.5 branch)
From:       James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj () acm ! org>
Date:       2007-05-25 1:52:56
Message-ID: 46564178.7080802 () acm ! org
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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.

I thought that rebuilding KDE was what I was doing.  KDELibs and KDEBase 
were rebuilt, but I have found some other issues so, I will be doing it 
in the next few days.

An odd thing is that Grep was unable to find where that symbol 
(pcre_compile2) is used.  I tried both KDEBase and KDELibs.

-- 
JRT
 
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