Re: [gentoo-user] Re: netcat and libmix.so.0 curiosity

[Felix Kuperjans]

On Tuesday 24 Jan 2012 15:02, Mick wrote:
> On Monday 23 Jan 2012 23:34:00 Mervyn Hammer wrote:
>> Thanks for your replies.
>>
>>> Am 23.01.2012 23:03, schrieb walt:
>>>> Very strange indeed.  I just installed both packages and I have no
>>>> libmix.so.0 either, yet everything works.
>>>>
>>>> No idea what's causing your problem, but I agree it's a problem I'd
>>>> want to solve.  I'd try running ldconfig -p and lddtree /usr/bin/nc
>>>> to see where the .0 is coming from.  (lddtree is from pax-utils).
>> For completeness:
>>
>> (for dev-libs/libmix-2.05-r5 after symlink created)
>>
>> ldconfig -p | grep libmix =
>>
>> 	libmix.so.0 (libc6) => /usr/lib/libmix.so.0
>> 	libmix++.so.0 (libc6) => /usr/lib/libmix++.so.0
>>
>> and output from lddtree /usr/bin/nc =
>>
>> nc => /usr/bin/nc (interpreter => /lib/ld-linux.so.2)
>>     libmix.so.0 => /usr/lib/libmix.so.0
>>     libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6
>>
>> * Felix Kuperjans <felix@××××××××××××××.com> [2012-01-23 23:13:26 +0100]:
>>> I ran into this problem some time ago, it seems the ebuild
>>> dev-libs/libmix-2.05-r5 is broken. It does no longer create a symlink
>>> from libmix.so.0 to libmix.so.
>> Though it worked with the symlink, as you suggested, I upgraded libmix
>> anyway.
>
> Hmm ... strange.
>
> I have dev-libs/libmix-2.05-r5 and I also have the symlink:
>
> $ ls -la /usr/lib64/libmix*
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  5752 Mar 25  2011 /usr/lib64/libmix++.so
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    11 Mar 25  2011 /usr/lib64/libmix++.so.0 ->
> libmix++.so
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 98352 Mar 25  2011 /usr/lib64/libmix.so
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     9 Mar 25  2011 /usr/lib64/libmix.so.0 -> libmix.so
This happens if a previous version created it.

Try unmerging libmix and netcat, delete the symlink and re-emerge
netcat. It won't be created again, though it should. (At least, this
happend on many of my boxes, x86 and amd64)

Regards,
Felix