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From: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gettext missing symlink message
Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 06:22:23
Message-Id: 5190865A.4050802@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] gettext missing symlink message by Samuli Suominen
1 On 13/05/13 09:19, Samuli Suominen wrote:
2 > On 13/05/13 04:57, Walter Dnes wrote:
3 >> I ran into this today while installing Gentoo on my new machine.
4 >>
5 >> making executable: usr/lib64/preloadable_libintl.so
6 >> .[33;01m * .[39;49;00mQA Notice: Missing soname symlink(s):
7 >> .[33;01m * .[39;49;00m
8 >> .[33;01m * .[39;49;00m usr/lib64/libgnuintl.so.8 ->
9 >> preloadable_libintl.so
10 >> .[33;01m * .[39;49;00m
11 >>
12 >>
13 >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=374545 was opened in July of
14 >> 2011 (YES!!!). I don't want to bug the developers. My questions are...
15 >>
16 >> 1) does it cause any problems?
17 >
18 > no
19 >
20 >>
21 >> 2) is the appropriate workaround to...
22 >>
23 >> cd /usr/lib64
24 >> ln -s preloadable_libintl.so libgnuintl.so.8
25 >>
26 >
27 > no, don't do anything, portage does it for you
28 > ignore the warning
29
30 err, sorry confused this with another. this warning is really a bug in
31 portage, the preloadable library doesn't need to be called as per SONAME
32 due to the way it's used in apps