Daniel Frey <djqf...@gmail.com> [15-12-06 18:04]: > On 12/05/2015 11:57 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> [15-12-06 08:24]: > >> On 06/12/2015 05:47, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > >>> What exactly is libpcre.so.3 or for what stands it for? > >>> Is the installed libpcre the one which is needed? > >>> How can I fix it? > >> > >> libpcre provides a regex library for apps to use. The version you have > >> will probably not work, as it is .so version 1 and blender wants version > >> 3. So a symlink is not the correct way to go. > >> > >> You are using the daily dev build so most likely those devs aren't using > >> Gentoo and do have libpcre.so.3 from somewhere. > >> > > They aren't using gentoo, they're using Debian or Ubuntu. libpcre.so.3 > is from Debian's package libpcre [1] and presumably it is packaged as > libpcre.so.3. On Debian's package site it says it's version 8.35-3.3. > > If you mask >=dev-libs/libpcre-8.36 so portage installs 8.35 and > manually create a symlink for libpcre.so.3 it should work without > issues. Heck, a symlink could even work for 8.36, but you may wind up > with a weird issue or maybe a segfault during usage. It's probably > better to use the version in the Debian binaries so long as it doesn't > mess up the packages on your system. > > Dan > > [1] https://packages.debian.org/jessie/libpcre3 >
Hi @all, thanks a lot for all the support. I did "the bad thing" and created a symlink to the currently installed version of libpcre...until now it works fine. We will see. Since I am using dev-blender-builds I am aware of sudden interruption (hrrrm...) of the workflow...so no problem! Thanks again! :) Best regards, Meino
