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From: Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Updating libpng: another libtool cockup?
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 20:43:12
Message-Id: CA+czFiBhzjzk7ZHembe0KDpH+fCOj_z-CM9wW2BFYEqtwwDfiA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Updating libpng: another libtool cockup? by Mark Knecht
1 On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote:
3 >> On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu> wrote:
4 > <SNIP>
5 >>> ajglap gottlieb # revdep-rebuild; revdep-rebuild --library '/usr/lib64/libpng14.so.14'
6 > <SNIP>
7 >>
8 >> Is there no automated way to catch these? --library expects an
9 >> argument; how do I know which libraries to feed it?
10 >
11 > My question exactly. It's not likeyou can look at just names of
12 > libraries as I think to do this right you've got to look at every
13 > revision of every library on the system, don't you?
14 >
15 > It's possible that this problem could exist for a long while if a
16 > program doesn't get used much...
17
18 Based on subsequent discussion since I wrote that question, I think
19 the answer is, "currently, no." Ebuillds would need more metadata, and
20 portage would need to be more aware of deep dependencies.
21
22 I'm not sure of revdep-rebuild's angle, or how it might be able to be
23 improved to detect errors that don't come from broken linkage.
24 --
25 :wq

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Updating libpng: another libtool cockup? Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>