Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Barry Schwartz <chemoelectric@×××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] gcc with gcj flag revdep loop
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 01:10:43
Message-Id: 20090126011036.GA6460@crud.crud.mn.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] gcc with gcj flag revdep loop by Stan Sander
1 > Mark Knecht wrote:
2 >> Hello all,
3 >> I had been thinking about possibly emerging icedtea. According to
4 >> the link posted a few days ago gcc needed the gcj flag added so I did
5 >> that and emerged gcc. However it seems to have caused an endless loop
6 >> in revdep-rebuild. If I'm correct this is a bug that is almost 3 years
7 >> old and still unfixed across many revs of gcc and all the system stuff
8 >> that's related. The only possible solution I noticed in a very quick
9 >> read seems to require hand manipulation of base file which I'm not
10 >> going to do.
11 >>
12 >> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125728
13 >>
14 >> Now, it seems that many don't see this problem. Have any of you
15 >> discovered an emerge method around this?
16
17 Yes: Having tired of hand-editing, I ignore it. :) More precisely, I
18 use revdep-rebuild -pv and cut and paste an emerge by hand.
19
20 (It occurs to me that revdep-rebuild isn't quite in the Un*x spirit;
21 perhaps it should output arguments for a call to 'xargs emerge'; then
22 it would be easy to use a person's favorite filter.)