Re: libotf.so.1, libotf.so.0, Fedora 39, and Emacs 30.0.50

[Michael Albinus]

Frederick Bartlett <frederick.bartlett@gmail.com> writes:

Hi Fred,

> After testing on another machine, I updated to F39 on my main one.
>
> And Emacs failed with the message "emacs: error while loading shared
> libraries: libotf.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
> directory"
>
> This did not happen on my older and slower test machine.
>
> The same library caused trouble about a dozen years ago, but this is a
> different problem.
>
> F39 has updated to libotf.so.1.0.0, while Emacs still wants libotf.so.0.
>
> So I added a symlink in /lib64 from libotf.so.0 to libotf.so.1.0.0.
>
> This actually works (for now), but I expect something to break soon ...

Same seen here. "make bootstrap" did solve.

> Whose problem is this, though? Fedora or Emacs?

I wouldn't call it a problem. Something you could expect after OS upgrade.

> Thanks!
> Fred

Best regards, Michael.