Re: balsa-2.3.23-1.fc9.i386 is broken

[Geoffrey Leach <geoff hughes net>]

On 05/25/08 21:30:50, Ildar Mulyukov wrote:
> On 26.05.2008 04:39:48, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> > % /usr/bin/balsa
> > /usr/bin/balsa: symbol lookup error: /usr/bin/balsa: undefined
> symbol:
> > g_mime_set_user_charsets
> > 
> > rpm for libgmime is installed
> > balsa-2.3.23-1.fc9.i386
> > 
> > Locally-built balsa works fine, after installation of a host of
> > dependencies, which should have been handled by the rpm.
> 
> Hi!
> 
> It's badly shaped library versioning, which you can see in FC. This 
> is
>  
> generally the libgmime upstream bug AND the FC distro bug.
> Changing ABI without raising so-version is prohibited (strike  
> upstream). But the distro builders should be aware of such upstream  
> problems and fix it on their side (strike FC).
> 
> For the users: Logically if you see just upgraded program complaining 
> 
> about some gmime symbols, you should upgrade libgmime as well to  
> resolve these problems.
> Best regards, Ildar

Hello Ildar.  Useful advice. My problem turned out to a local variant. 
ldd /usr/bin/balsa|grep gmime showed that there was an out-of-date 
version of gmime in /usr/local/lib