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On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 4:10 PM, walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I just did a routine update on my ~amd64 machine and saw the portage |
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> warning that libpng14 has been replaced by libpng15, and I should run |
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> revdep-rebuild --library '/usr/lib/libpng14.so' and then delete the |
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> obsolete library. |
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> That's what I did. I confess I wasn't watching, so I may have missed |
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> some important errors during the run. |
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> After that I ran plain revdep-rebuild as I do after every update, and |
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> saw that two gnome packages failed to rebuild properly because lpng14 |
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> couldn't be found :/ |
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> From painful experience I've learned that good-old libtool files (*.la) |
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> are the usual suspects, and grep found -lpng14 in about ten .la files |
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> even after both revdep-rebuilds. Grrr! |
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> This fixed the problem for me (as similar moves have done in the past): |
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> #find /usr/lib64 -name \*.la -exec sed -i s/png14/png15/ '{}' ';' |
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> I ran revdep-rebuild again and the two broken packages emerged nicely |
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> this time. |
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> I hope no one else will hit this problem, but at least this is a good |
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> workaround if you do. |
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If you're not following Diego Pettenò's blog, you probably should. .la |
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files are one of the things he harps on in his blog. |
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http://blog.flameeyes.eu/ |
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:wq |
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