Re: [Pan-users] All the sudden, my Pan v0.12 broke on both of my Red Hat Linux 7.x boxes!

[Phillip Pi]

> On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Phillip Pi wrote:
> 
> > >   You upgraded your packages... did you recompile Pan against the new 
> > > library versions?  AFAIK, "undefined symbol" means it was compiled 
> > > against something, which it is therefore trying to use, but the 
> > > installed version of that library does not contain the functionality 
> > > it's trying to access.
> > >   I'd say, "make uninstall", "make clean", then ./configure and rebuild. 
> > > (Or, possibly, "rpm --rebuild ...", "rpm -Uv ..." depending on how you 
> > > build stuff.  :)
> > > 
> > >   If you did *not* compile this (i.e., installed from binary packages) 
> > > then I'd advise looking for an updated Pan package that was built 
> > > against the libraries you have installed.
> > > 
> > >   I've also heard of problems with binary packages, caused by the person 
> > > who builds ProgramX.rpm not using the same compiler version as the 
> > > person who build LibraryY.rpm.  Many distributions (such as Mandrake) 
> > > are using GCC version 3.something for their new-release stuff, but many 
> > > folks (such as myself) have not upgraded from version 2.96.  I have no 
> > > idea whether your trouble falls into that category, though.  :/
> > 
> > I used RPMs to upgrade. Here is what I don't understand, both systems' Pan 
> > were working after the upgrades. The last time I used it was yesterday 
> > morning. I went out for a few hours. I wanted to use Pan again, and they 
> > no longer worked. What could possibly be changed? One machine was off when 
> > I was out while the other one was on. I don't get it. Is there something 
> > updating in the background to break something?
> 
> If Pan was running when you upgraded the freetype packages, then the
> contents of the old freetype package will have been in use.  So they
> will only have been replaced when Pan was closed and any other program
> using them was closed too.

I wasn't running Pan while upgrading freetype package according to my 
post: http://mail.freesoftware.fsf.org/pipermail/pan-users/2002-June/001069.html
I wasn't able to run Pan due to: pan: relocation error: 
/usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1: undefined symbol: FT_Get_Next_Char

I don't run Pan idled since it takes up a lot of RAM. 


 
> The next time you started Pan the new freetype binaries will have been
> in place, so Pan had a problem.
> 
> I concur with the above suggestions - either install a different binary
> or get the Pan SRPM and recompile it yourself.

I can try the SRPM, but I think my old 7.1 box doesn't know how to use rpm 
--rebuild even though it is v4.04. I will follow up on the rebuild one.