[gentoo-dev] problems after removing libiconv

[Erik Grinaker]

hi all

Thought I'd let you know about this

I removed libiconv-1.7 from my system some days ago when I encountered
problems upgrading glib to version 2.0.1, following Spider's
instructions from the bug entry (id 2405).

However, after using libiconv from glibc I encountered problems with
several applications, among others evolution and gabber. When trying to
re-emerge these I got errors from the linker when trying to link with
iconv library.

After alot of digging around, with good help from Spider via irc, I
pinpointed the problem to gnome-extras/gal. After re-emerging gal the
problems went away. I re-emerged the affected applictions and everything
was back to normal.

Finding affected packages can be done similarly to the libpng scans;

for FILE in `find /usr/{bin,sbin,lib} -type f -perm +u+x`; do
	ldd "$FILE" | grep libiconv && qpkg -nc -f "$FILE" >>/tmp/iconv
done

cat /tmp/iconv | sort | uniq >/tmp/iconv~
mv /tmp/iconv~ /tmp/iconv
cat /tmp/iconv



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Erik Grinaker
Freelance UNIX/Linux systems consultant

"Perfection is acheived not when there is nothing more to add, but
rather when there is nothing more to take away"
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry