Re: [gentoo-amd64] gcc with gcj flag revdep loop

[Mark Knecht]

On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Stan Sander <stsander@×××××.net> wrote:
> Mark Knecht wrote:
>>
>> Hello all,
>>   I had been thinking about possibly emerging icedtea. According to
>> the link posted a few days ago gcc needed the gcj flag added so I did
>> that and emerged gcc. However it seems to have caused an endless loop
>> in revdep-rebuild. If I'm correct this is a bug that is almost 3 years
>> old and still unfixed across many revs of gcc and all the system stuff
>> that's related. The only possible solution I noticed in a very quick
>> read seems to require hand manipulation of base file which I'm not
>> going to do.
>>
>> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125728
>>
>>   Now, it seems that many don't see this problem. Have any of you
>> discovered an emerge method around this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mark
>
> Yes, I've seen it and I've also seen that it is a very old bug that for
> whatever reason remains unfixed.  What I do is to run revdep-rebuild with
> the -p flag and hand edit the *.la files it finds to show the correct path
> for libgij and libgcj, which are the two that are perpetually broken on my
> system.  Then on the next run of revdep-rebuild (again with the -p) it no
> longer complains about those files.  Not an emerge solution as you asked
> about, but one that works anyway.
> --
> Stan & Tashi

Thanks Stan,
   I'll investigate doing that. I've not modified files like this
before on Gentoo and I'm sort of reluctant to go down that path.

   I'm very surprised at this sort of unfixed bug. It's coming up on 3 years!

   Am I correct that if I remove the gcj flag and re-emerge the
problem will go away?

Thanks,
Mark