Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: walt <w41ter@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: strange library dependencies
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 23:05:07
Message-Id: ikbtmi$cva$1@dough.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] strange library dependencies by Helmut Jarausch
1 On 02/25/2011 01:51 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > I've just emerged app-text/djview4 which went through without any
5 > errors.
6 >
7 > But invoking djview4 fails due to missing libraries
8 >
9 > libdjvulibre.so.15 and libtiff.so.3
10 >
11 > On my system there the more recent versions
12 > libdjvulibre.so.21 libtiff.so.5
13 >
14 > I don't understand how something that's just got compiled and
15 > linked may refer to libraries which are not present.
16
17 My automatic response to missing libraries is to run revdep-rebuild.
18 Have you tried that yet? I run it every time I update the system.