[kde-linux] JPEG 7 vs KDE-4.4 (DLL HELL comes to Linux?)

[James Tyrer]

Duncan wrote:
> James Tyrer posted on Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:23:27 -0700 as excerpted:
> 
>> James Tyrer wrote:
>>> James Tyrer wrote:
>>>
>>>> Wrong JPEG library version: library is 70, caller expects 62
>>> This message appears to be coming from the JPEG library.  So, this
>>> appears to be a bug.  If KDE functions require version 62, then the
>>> build system needs to be able to link to it by version number.  I don't
>>> have a lot of experience with CMake, so I don't know exactly how to do
>>> this as I would with autotools.
>>>
>> Jpeg 8a gives the same error message with a different version.  This is
>> a JPEG error message.  It is in jerror.h at line 57.  Could this be a Qt
>> bug?
> 
> It's coming from the jpeg library, yes, but what it's indicating is that 
> you still have something built against 6.x (6.2, maybe 6b, whatever).  
> It's something built against 6b or whatever that's calling/loading the 
> library, and getting 7 (or 8a) instead of 6b or whatever.
> 
I appear to have found the problem.  Qt did not properly relink the JPEG 
plugin.  So, a: "make clean", "make", & "make install" appears to have 
fixed the problem.  II(now)RC, I read somewhere that one shouldn't 
depend on the Qt build system of properly rebuilding when library 
versions are updated.

> As I mentioned, Gentoo has a script (called revdep-rebuild) that detects 
> and suggests a rebuild of such (reverse) dependencies.  The core of it is 
> ldd
> 
Will this run on other systems?  Actually, what is needed is more than a 
script, we need a package manager that works by actually looking at what 
is installed.

I have a more simple script that searches for strings in LA files.

-- 
James Tyrer

Linux (mostly) From Scratch