Geany: could not load libvte.so

[Josef Whiter]

Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 08:16:17 -0800, Christopher Stone wrote:
>
>   
>> On 1/19/07, Mark Knoop wrote:
>>     
>>> I saw this editor newly in Extras, so gave it a try.
>>>
>>> $ geany
>>> ** INFO: debug mode built in (can't be disabled)
>>> ** INFO: GTK+ 2.10.4, GLib 2.12.3
>>> ** INFO: Could not load libvte.so, terminal support disabled
>>>
>>> It works fine if I symlink /usr/lib/libvte.so.9 to /usr/lib/libvte.so.
>>> I would BZ this, but the geany component is not yet in Bugzilla.
>>>       
>> This looks like a vte bug to me.  I did not get this error when I
>> reviewed the package.  Therefore the vte package appears to be fine on
>> my system.  Are you running FC-6?
>>     
>
> Bug is reproducible on a FC-6. Just make sure you don't have "vte-devel"
> installed.
>
> That geany dlopen()'s libvte.so at run-time, is a bug in geany. It
> ought to open the specific libvte.so.9 instead, since it was built 
> with a specific vte-devel. See "src/vte.c".
>
>   
Hmm, I have vte-devel as a BuildRequires, should I make it a Requires as 
well to fix this problem or should I actually patch geany to fix this issue?

Josef