Geany: could not load libvte.so

[Mark Knoop]

On 20/01/07, Josef Whiter <josef at toxicpanda.com> wrote:
> Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 08:15 -0500, Josef Whiter wrote:
> >
> >
> >>> 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?
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Requiring a -devel package at runtime is wrong, unless you are a -devel
> > package yourself. Patching geany to dlopen the versioned library sounds
> > easy enough. Why does it have to dlopen vte anyway, instead of just
> > linking against it ?
> >
> >
> Beats me, I will go through and make it so it doesn't do the dlopen and
> rebuild and then send the patch upstream.  Thanks much for reporting this,
>

Meanwhile, as a workaround without either installing vte-devel or
making a symlink,

geany --vte-lib /usr/lib/libvte.so.9

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Mark Knoop