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From: "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: allan gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] scary (?) situation with binutils
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 08:31:56
Message-Id: 1867814.ACRo8rusjy@porto
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] scary (?) situation with binutils by allan gottlieb
1 Am Samstag, 16. September 2017, 22:31:03 CEST schrieb allan gottlieb:
2 > I am one of the users experiencing the
3 > infinite rebuild of binutils
4 > bug. Today it took a turn I find worrisome
5 >
6 > To summarize for months now after every emerge I get
7 >
8 > !!! existing preserved libs:
9 > >>> package: sys-libs/binutils-libs-2.28.1
10 >
11 > * - /usr/lib64/libbfd-2.25.1.so
12 > * used by
13 > /usr/lib64/binutils/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/2.25.1/libopcodes-2.25.1.so
14 > (sys-devel/binutils-2.25.1-r1)
15 > Use emerge @preserved-rebuild to rebuild packages using these libraries
16 [snip]
17
18 No need to do anything complicated. Just run
19
20 emerge --depclean --ask
21
22 and have it remove outdated binutils versions (it will keep the current one,
23 and also then select it for usage automatically).
24
25 Then all these problems are gone...
26
27 --
28 Andreas K. Hüttel
29 dilfridge@g.o
30 Gentoo Linux developer (council, perl, libreoffice)

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Re: [gentoo-user] scary (?) situation with binutils allan gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu>