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From: John Blinka <jblinka@××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild and gcj
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 13:08:43
Message-Id: 45B758DB.2070500@neo.rr.com
1 I maintain an up-to-date system that requires gcj. For some time, running
2 revdep-rebuild -p generates this output:
3
4
5 ~--> revdep-rebuild -p
6 Configuring search environment for revdep-rebuild
7
8 Checking reverse dependencies...
9
10 Packages containing binaries and libraries broken by a package update
11 will be emerged.
12
13 Collecting system binaries and libraries... done.
14 (/root/.revdep-rebuild.1_files)
15
16 Collecting complete LD_LIBRARY_PATH... done.
17 (/root/.revdep-rebuild.2_ldpath)
18
19 Checking dynamic linking consistency...
20 broken /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/libgcjawt.la (requires
21 /usr/lib/lib-gnu-java-awt-peer-gtk.la)
22 broken /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/libgij.la (requires
23 /usr/lib/libgcj.la)
24 done.
25 (/root/.revdep-rebuild.3_rebuild)
26
27 Assigning files to ebuilds... done.
28 (/root/.revdep-rebuild.4_ebuilds)
29
30 Evaluating package order... done.
31 (/root/.revdep-rebuild.5_order)
32
33 All prepared. Starting rebuild...
34 emerge --oneshot -p =sys-devel/gcc-4.1.1-r3
35
36 These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
37
38 Calculating dependencies... done!
39 [ebuild R ] sys-devel/gcc-4.1.1-r3
40 Now you can remove -p (or --pretend) from arguments and re-run
41 revdep-rebuild.
42
43
44 But re-emerging gcc doesn't solve the dependency problem. In fact, both
45 libgcjawt.la and
46 libgij.la appear to be installed by "emerge gcc". gcj.la and
47 lib-gnu-java-awt-peer-gtk.la
48 both appear on my system, and both appear to be installed by "emerge
49 gcc". However,
50 both are located in /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1, not in /usr/lib.
51
52 Is this a bug, or is there something I can do to fix my system? (Other
53 than put in
54 soft links to the needed libraries.)
55
56 John Blinka
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Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild and gcj "Bo Ørsted Andresen" <bo.andresen@××××.dk>