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LDView error "libboost_thread-mt.so"

December 21st, 2009 by Niels Horn in ,

For those who use LDView on Slackware-current and noticed that it suddenly stopped working: the problem is in the latest update of the "boost" library: 

+--------------------------+
Thu Dec 17 20:51:37 UTC 2009
...
l/boost-1.41.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.

This latest update does not include the *-mt (=multi-thread) libraries, as the "normal" version is already multi-threaded.

The solution to get LDView working again is simply rebuild it from the :
- Download the SlackBuild script & untar it
- Download the source for LDView
- run the SlackBuild as: 

# BUILD=2 ./LDView.SlackBuild

- use upgradepkg to upgrade your LDView