Hi, On 09/05/2011 12:59 AM, Denis Arnaud wrote: > Hello, > > I just came onto a tricky dependency issue, and thought it could be of > interest to the list. > emacs requires libotf.so.0, which is the library handling Open Type > Fonts (OTF), provided by the libotf package. > Well, fine enough. But libotf.so.0 is also provided by the OpenMPI > package (not in /usr/lib, but rather in /usr/lib/openmpi/lib). > > So, RPM/Yum is misleaded when installing, whenever OpenMPI has > installed. It results in a cryptic "emacs: error while loading shared > libraries: libotf.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or > directory" error message (I put it here in plain, so that it can be > indexed by our favourite Web crawlers), or so, when trying to launch > emacs from a terminal. > > I see no clean solution, as both packages (libotf, openmpi) have some > legitimity to name that libotf.so library like that. And it seems > impracticable to have RPM handles full paths rather than just library names. > > I leave the floor open for debates :) I have faced this issue before, and have also raised this on this list, Pls see [1] for the mail thread. [1] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2011-July/153812.html -Amit -- http://echorand.me -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
