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From: Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@××××××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Heads Up - gcc-4.5.4 makes trouble
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 10:25:34
Message-Id: 1342434244.23713.1@numa-i
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Heads Up - gcc-4.5.4 makes trouble by Markos Chandras
1 On 07/16/2012 12:02:25 PM, Markos Chandras wrote:
2 > On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Helmut Jarausch
3 > <jarausch@××××××××××××××××.de> wrote:
4 > > Hi,
5 > >
6 > > I've just been bitten by this * surprise *
7 > >
8 > > After upgrading to gcc-4.5.4 (from 4.5.3)
9 > > some packages / ebuilds fail since gcc-4.5.4 doesn't include the
10 > libffi.so.4
11 > > library.
12 > >
13 > > I had to rebuild
14 > > dev-lang/perl (all versions here 2.7 3.2)
15 > > dev-libs/gobject-introspection
16 > > dev-libs/gobject-introspection-common
17 > >
18 > > and I'm not sure that's enough.
19 > > Unfortunately, revdep-rebuild doesn't fix the problems.
20 > >
21 > > The problem didn't occur on a system where I'm using gcc-4.6.x as
22 > standard
23 > > compiler.
24 > >
25 > > Helmut.
26 > >
27 > Hi Helmut,
28 >
29 > libffi.so.4 has nothing to do with gcc. Rebuild the libffi package and
30 > try to rebuild these packages again.
31
32 (Just checking my backups:)
33 It was installed at /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.5.3/libffi.so.4
34 (don't ask me why)
35 And after upgrading to gcc-4.5.4 is has gone causing me the problems
36 described above.
37 And revdep-rebuild didn't find any problems.
38
39 Helmut.