Activity log for bug #392693

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2009-06-26 20:24:00 Wim Lewis bug added bug
2009-06-26 20:27:49 Wim Lewis description The pre-compiled Inkscape-0.46-2.LEOPARD.UNIVERSAL.dmg will not run on my system. The problem is that the included copy of libxml2 is an older version than the system version, which itself is indirectly used by inkscape: Process: inkscape-bin [25867] Path: /Applications/Local/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/bin/inkscape-bin Code Type: X86 (Native) [....] Dyld Error Message: Library not loaded: /usr/lib/libxml2.2.dylib Referenced from: /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/DictionaryServices.framework/Versions/A/DictionaryServices Reason: Incompatible library version: DictionaryServices requires version 10.0.0 or later, but libxml2.2.dylib provides version 9.0.0 "otool -L" shows that Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/lib/libxml2.2.dylib is version 9.31.0, but /usr/lib/libxml2.2.dylib is 10.3.0. Simply removing Inkscape's copy of libxml2.2.dylib caused it to load the system's copy instead and all was well. As an aside, Inkscape's libraries all have install-names of /opt/local/lib, and Inkscape uses DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH to find them, which is probably not a good idea--- for bundled libraries, it's much less trouble-prone to use the @executable_path or (on 10.5 and up) @loader_path and @rpath features of dyld. The pre-compiled Inkscape-0.46-2.LEOPARD.UNIVERSAL.dmg will not run on my system. The problem is that the included copy of libxml2 is an older version than the system version, which itself is indirectly used by inkscape: Process: inkscape-bin [25867] Path: /Applications/Local/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/bin/inkscape-bin Code Type: X86 (Native) [....] Dyld Error Message: Library not loaded: /usr/lib/libxml2.2.dylib Referenced from: /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/DictionaryServices.framework/Versions/A/DictionaryServices Reason: Incompatible library version: DictionaryServices requires version 10.0.0 or later, but libxml2.2.dylib provides version 9.0.0 "otool -L" shows that Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/lib/libxml2.2.dylib is version 9.31.0, but /usr/lib/libxml2.2.dylib is 10.3.0. Simply removing Inkscape's copy of libxml2.2.dylib caused it to load the system's copy instead and all was well. As an aside, Inkscape's libraries all have install-names of /opt/local/lib, and Inkscape uses DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH to find them, which is probably not a good idea--- for bundled libraries, it's much less trouble-prone to use the @executable_path or (on 10.5 and up) @loader_path and @rpath features of dyld. Bug #345176 is somewhat related but is a different problem.
2009-07-20 02:32:04 Michael Wybrow inkscape: status New Confirmed
2009-07-20 02:32:04 Michael Wybrow inkscape: assignee Michael Wybrow (mjwybrow)
2009-09-08 01:59:35 Michael Wybrow inkscape: status Confirmed Fix Released