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Would anyone be able to help me understand the following curiosity? |
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I installed =net-analyzer/netcat-110-r8 (USE="crypt ipv6 -static") |
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without apparent problem but running it produced: |
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"nc: error while loading shared libraries: libmix.so.0: cannot open |
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shared object file: No such file or directory." |
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A quick check of emerge.log showed dev-libs/libmix-2.05-r5 installed |
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without error, so I ran a deep world update followed by a --depclean |
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and revdep-debuild: revdep-rebuild identified a broken dependency |
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for netcat and reinstalled it automatically (same version), stating |
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that the breakage had been rectified. Re-running revdep-rebuild, |
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however, revealed that the problem still existed. I unmerged both |
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libmix and netcat and re-emerged them (libmix first). Neither |
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complained and logs show nothing of note. After unmerging and |
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re-emerging both libmix and netcat (libmix first) revdep-rebuild no |
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longer found a broken dependency for netcat. Still, however, netcat |
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gave the same error (above). I temporarily "fixed" the problem by |
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creating a symlink (/usr/lib/libmix.so.0 -> /usr/lib/libmix.so) |
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to give netcat what it says it is looking for but this feels like a hack |
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for some that I would presume should work cleanly by design. |
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Have I missed something? |
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Some unscientific and not-at-all-thorough tests seem to show that netcat |
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is happy with the symlink. |
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Your thoughts/guidance would be much appreciated. |
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Merv Hammer |
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