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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libpng12 is missing
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 11:24:40
Message-Id: 20100511122400.4175f8aa@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libpng12 is missing by Albert Hopkins
1 On Tue, 11 May 2010 07:13:09 -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote:
2
3 > FWIW, revdep-rebuild worked without a hitch on one of my machines. On
4 > another, no combination of revdep-rebuild/lafilefixer would fix
5 > unresolved link dependencies. I ended up having to do an "emerge -e
6 > world". That finally fixed the problem.
7
8 I tried several revdep-rebuild/lafilefixer cycles with similar
9 frustration (although on another machine it just worked) but rebuilding
10 everything with -lpng12 in a .la file, as per my last post, allowed
11 revdep-rebuild to complete.
12
13 I try to avoid emerge -e world because
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15 1: It is time consuming.
16 2: It may still not work after all that time.
17 3: It is too much like the Gentoo equivalent of a reinstall and you are
18 none the wiser as to why it fixed something.
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21 --
22 Neil Bothwick
23
24 Top Oxymorons Number 6: Pretty ugly

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