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From: Gregorio Guidi <greg_g@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] cause for *.la files not getting unmerged?
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 22:46:34
Message-Id: 200606020041.22411.greg_g@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] cause for *.la files not getting unmerged? by "Sven Köhler"
1 On Friday 02 June 2006 00:12, Sven Köhler wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > it seems, i have some *.la files on my system, that don't belong to any
5 > ebuild anymore. I noticed that, because the new revdep-rebuild
6 > (gentoolkit 0.2.2) also check *.la files, and some were broken (pointing
7 > to a libstdc++.la of gcc 4.1.1 - but gcc 4.1.1 has none).
8 >
9 > So the history is:
10 > - gcc 3.4.5 was installed
11 > - emerged gcc 4.1.1
12 > (so 3.4.5 _and_ 4.1.1 were installed)
13 > - updated gcc 3.4.5 to 3.4.6
14 > (4.1.1 remained installed)
15 >
16 > so after gcc 3.4.5 was unmerged, there was this procedure that updates
17 > all the *.la files which point to the (now uninstalled) libstdc++ of gcc
18 > 3.4.5.
19 >
20 > Could it be, that this procedure modifies the timestamps of the *.la
21 > files? And is this the reason, that the *.la files don't get unmerged?
22
23 That's correct:
24 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71265
25
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