Broken libcurl.so.3 dependency

[Jeremy Katz]

On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 10:51 -0400, Braden McDaniel wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 10:57 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 04:32:04 -0400, Braden McDaniel wrote:
> > 
> > > On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 09:41 +0200, Jindrich Novy wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 02:25 -0400, Braden McDaniel wrote:
> > > > > I maintain a package that links to libcurl, openvrml-player. A recent
> > > > > curl update changed the library version from libcurl.so.3 to
> > > > > libcurl.so.4. yum installed this update (on Fedora 7) without squawking.
> > > > 
> > > > curl-7.16.1 and newer which bumps soname to libcurl.so.4 has been around
> > > > for a while (since Jan 29 2007) and all of the packages, I was aware of,
> > > > dependent on libcurl.so.3 were rebuilt prior to F7 release. I haven't
> > > > released any curl update to F7 yet.
> > > 
> > > openvrml-player-0.16.4-2.fc7--which shows a build date of May 2,
> > > 2007--depends on libcurl.so.3.
> > 
> > It doesn't:
> > 
> >   http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/rpminfo?rpmID=51312
> > 
> > btw, libcurl.so.4 was introduced prior to the FE merge on May 2nd.
> 
> Well, now... color me confused. What's going on here?
> 
>         [braden at hinge ~]$ ldd /usr/bin/openvrml-player | grep libcurl.so.3
>         [braden at hinge ~]$ ldd /usr/bin/openvrml-player | grep libcurl.so.4
>                 libcurl.so.4 => /usr/lib64/libcurl.so.4 (0x0000003b50a00000)
>         [braden at hinge ~]$ openvrml-player
>         openvrml-player: error while loading shared libraries: libcurl.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I suspect you have another copy of openvrml-player in your $PATH...  try
running
   which openvrml-player

Jeremy