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From: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: news item for png15
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 16:18:18
Message-Id: 4E99B20D.8000502@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: news item for png15 by Ryan Hill
1 On 10/14/2011 04:59 AM, Ryan Hill wrote:
2 > On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 01:01:50 +0300
3 > Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 >> Title: Upgrade to libpng15
6 >> Author: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>
7 >> Content-Type: text/plain
8 >> Posted: 2011-10-14
9 >> Revision: 1
10 >> News-Item-Format: 1.0
11 >> Display-If-Installed: <media-libs/libpng-1.5
12 >>
13 >> After upgrading from libpng14 to libpng15 it's important that you rebuild
14 >> cairo and gdk-pixbuf soon as possible if they are installed.
15 > ^ as
16 >> Then you can proceed with rebuilding rest of the software against the new
17 > ^ the
18 >> library:
19 >>
20 >> # revdep-rebuild --library libpng14.so.14
21 >>
22 >> In case of failure, try skipping the failing package and rebuilding it
23 >> later in the process.
24 >
25 > How?
26 >
27 >> If you find packages not building with message "ld: cannot find -lpng14",
28 > ^ the
29 >> they are likely caused by broken libtool archives (.la) in your system.
30 >>
31 >> You can identify those files with following one-liner:
32 >>
33 >> # find /usr/ -name '*.la' -exec grep png14 {} +
34 >>
35 >> More information and help is available at following forums post:
36 > ^ the ^-s?
37 >>
38 >> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-894950.html
39 >>
40 >
41 >
42 >
43
44 Attaching draft #2. I've taken account all the replies so far. I left
45 complex one-liners out in _purpose_, and _want to_ people not
46 understanding the issue to follow up in the forums post.

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[gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: news item for png15 Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@g.o>