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From: Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] parrot & openoffice failures
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 17:16:58
Message-Id: 7573e9640611080904j9378eefn43151fc262dde568@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] parrot & openoffice failures by "Vladimir G. Ivanovic"
1 On 11/8/06, Vladimir G. Ivanovic <vgivanovic@×××××××.net> wrote:
2 > Both parrot-0.4.6 & openoffice-2.0.4 (on AMD64) fail to run because they
3 > are linked to *.so.34 versions of libraries in dev-libs/icu-3.4.1. The
4 > current version is 3.6 with *.so.36 libraries.
5 >
6 > Is this a bug? If it is a bug, is it a bug against parrot & openoffice,
7 > icu or portage?
8
9 No, not a bug. This is quite normal when updating libraries on gentoo
10 that some applications end up with broken dependencies. You should
11 usually follow world updates with revdep-rebuild to ensure that any
12 broken library dependencies get rebuilt.
13
14 > BTW, re-emerging parrot fixed parrot's problem, and I have 5 hours, 31
15 > minutes and 40 seconds before I can tell you if it fixed openoffice's
16 > problem (I'm assuming it will).
17
18 Now if openoffice fails to build against the new icu, then _that_ is a bug. :-)
19
20 -Richard
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] parrot & openoffice failures "Vladimir G. Ivanovic" <vgivanovic@×××××××.net>
Re: [gentoo-user] parrot & openoffice failures Graham Murray <graham@×××××××××××.uk>