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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] unable to find xcb-{aux, event, atom} (FIXED)
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 21:57:04
Message-Id: 201106012256.14393.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] unable to find xcb-{aux, event, atom} (FIXED) by Allan Gottlieb
1 On Wednesday 01 Jun 2011 18:38:35 Allan Gottlieb wrote:
2 > On Wed, Jun 01 2011, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
3 > > On Wed, Jun 01 2011, Mick wrote:
4 > >> On Wednesday 01 Jun 2011 05:00:08 Allan Gottlieb wrote:
5 > >>> I get the following error several times when trying to emerge
6 > >>> gnome-panel on "oldlap", an ~x86 gentoo.
7 > >>>
8 > >>> CCLD panel-test-applets
9 > >>>
10 > >>> /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.5.2/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/
11 > >>> ld: cannot find -lxcb-aux
12 > >>> /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.5.2/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/
13 > >>> ld: cannot find -lxcb-event
14 > >>> /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.5.2/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/
15 > >>> ld: cannot find -lxcb-atom collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
16 > >>>
17 > >>> oldlap ~ # locate xcb-aux
18 > >>> /usr/lib/pkgconfig/xcb-aux.pc
19 > >>> oldlap ~ #
20 > >>
21 > >> I seem to have more here, on a stable amd64:
22 > >>
23 > >> $ locate xcb-aux
24 > >> /usr/lib64/libxcb-aux.a
25 > >> /usr/lib64/libxcb-aux.la
26 > >> /usr/lib64/libxcb-aux.so
27 > >> /usr/lib64/libxcb-aux.so.0
28 > >> /usr/lib64/libxcb-aux.so.0.0.0
29 > >> /usr/lib64/pkgconfig/xcb-aux.pc
30 > >
31 > > Very interesting! I just looked on one of my stable boxes and sure
32 > > enough
33 > >
34 > > so xcb-util-0.3.6 has the files but -0.3.8 (testing) does not.
35 > >
36 > > This has opened a new lead, which I am now pursuing (bug 366227).
37 > > I will report back what I find.
38 >
39 > Indeed that lead fixed all the problems (which are apparently caused by
40 > xcb-util). From the bug
41 >
42 > Gilles Dartiguelongue 2011-05-09 08:23:52 UTC
43 >
44 > Please rebuild xcb-utils after running through as much packages as
45 > possible with revdep-rebuild. From irc discussions, it looks like
46 > xcb links to itself and/or pollutes some la files which ends up in
47 > these weird problems.
48 >
49 > So merging a few manually from the revdep-rebuild list, the merging
50 > xcb-util and repeating, eventually clears up everything.
51
52 Interesting fix/workaround. Thanks for the heads up.
53
54 --
55 Regards,
56 Mick

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