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Apparently, though unproven, at 23:06 on Wednesday 18 May 2011, Mick did opine |
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thusly: |
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> Had a depclean session which removed: |
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> media-libs/musicbrainz |
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> selected: 2.1.5 |
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> protected: none |
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> omitted: 3.0.2 |
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> Then I followed up with revdep-rebuild and this comes up: |
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> * Generated new 1_files.rr |
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> * Collecting complete LD_LIBRARY_PATH |
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> * Generated new 2_ldpath.rr |
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> * Checking dynamic linking consistency |
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> [ 67% ] * broken /usr/lib/libtunepimp.la (requires -lmusicbrainz) |
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> [snip ...] |
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> * Assigning files to packages |
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> * !!! /usr/lib/libtunepimp.la not owned by any package is broken !!! |
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> * /usr/lib/libtunepimp.la -> (none) |
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> What is "-lmusicbrainz" and is it telling me to just delete |
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> /usr/lib/libtunepimp.la? |
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Look into any *.la file and you will see stuff like this: |
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/usr/lib/libsqlite3.la:dependency_libs=' -ldl -lpthread' |
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The .la files are hints to the linker telling it how to do stuff, the -l bits |
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reference libraries that will be needed. Far more often than is acceptable, |
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libtool cocks this up in spectacular ways, which is why we had |
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lafilefixer --justfixit |
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for so long, and why it is now built into portage. |
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I have musicbrainz, but I do not have /usr/lib/libtunepimp.la and yours is |
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orphaned anyway - it probably got left behind long ago when depclean didn't |
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know it was related to musicbrainz. |
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Just delete the thing, be done with it, revdep-rebuild will stfu and you will |
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be a much happier chappy |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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