[gentoo-desktop] dbus upgrade problems

[Lindsay Haisley]

I'm trying to do an upgrade on my Gentoo desktop system.  One of the pieces 
that's in need of upgrading is dbus, from v0.62-r2 to v1.0.2, and in fact the 
former blocks the latter so I can't upgrade anything else until I do the dbus 
upgrade.  revdep-rebuild indicates that dozens of packages are broken by the 
dbus upgrade!

The most important of these packages for my work is evolution, which is flakey 
at best and drives me crazy at times, but I depend on it so I'm careful to not 
do anything to disable it.  So I upgraded dbus, and then tried to upgrade 
evolution, but the ebuild fails with the following:

grep: /usr/lib/libdbus-glib-1.la: No such file or directory
/bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib/libdbus-glib-1.la: No such file or directory
libtool: link: `/usr/lib/libdbus-glib-1.la' is not a valid libtool archive
make[3]: *** [libeconduit.la] Error 1
make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
grep: /usr/lib/libdbus-glib-1.la: No such file or directory
/bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib/libdbus-glib-1.la: No such file or directory
libtool: link: `/usr/lib/libdbus-glib-1.la' is not a valid libtool archive
make[3]: *** [libeutil.la] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/evolution-2.8.2.1/work/evolution-2.8.2.1/e-util'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/evolution-2.8.2.1/work/evolution-2.8.2.1/e-util'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/evolution-2.8.2.1/work/evolution-2.8.2.1'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Indeed, the dbus upgrade nuked /usr/lib/libdbus-glib-1.la.  Shouldn't the 
configure script for evolution detect that this file is absent and compensate 
for its absence, or fail in configure so the ebuild never gets this far?

I downversioned dbus to where it was before and things are working normally 
again, but I'm stuck until I can figure out how to re-emerge evolution if I 
upgrade dbus.  Can anyone advise me?

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