On 04/03/2012 05:27:45 PM, luis jure wrote:
> 
> hello list,
> 
> on my ~amd64 system, digikam (2.5.0) now fails to start with:
> 
> digikam: error while loading shared libraries: libblas.so.0: cannot  
> open
> shared object file: No such file or directory
> 
> searching for libblas, i found these two orphaned files, not  
> belonging to
> any installed package:
> 
> /usr/lib64/libblas.a
> /usr/lib64/libblas.so
> (no libblas.so.0)
> 
> libblas.so is a dead link to a non-existent blas/reference/libblas.so
> the same with libblas.a
> 
> i have sci-libs/blas-reference and virtual/blas installed, but i  
> really
> don't understand how they work.
> 
> i googled for this problem, and searched bugs.gentoo.org also, but i
> couldn't find anything that could help me understand and solve the
> problem. now i can't rebuild digikam-2.5.0 that i have installed, and
> older versions fail also.
> 
> any ideas?
> 

you can check with

eselect blas list

if the right (installed) package is in use.

Helmut.