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From: Rudmer van Dijk <rudmer.van.dijk@××××××.nl>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libpng12 is missing
Date: Sun, 09 May 2010 20:13:04
Message-Id: 201005092212.06532.rudmer.van.dijk@casema.nl
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libpng12 is missing by Volker Armin Hemmann
1 On Sunday 09 May 2010, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
2 > On Sonntag 09 Mai 2010, Rudmer van Dijk wrote:
3 > > On Sunday 09 May 2010, walt wrote:
4 > > > This looks to me like a major portage screwup. I see that on my ~amd64
5 > > > machine I have both versions of libpng, but the 1.2.43-r1 doesn't
6 > > > install a pkg-config file because 1.4.2 installs one with the same
7 > > > name, and just as bad, version 1.2.43-r1 removed the libpng12 header
8 > > > files.
9 > > >
10 > > > For now, I'd suggest just going back to to 1.2.43 if you can -- maybe
11 > > > mask
12 > > >
13 > > > >1.2.43 in package.mask?
14 > > >
15 > > > Meanwhile I'm trying to fix firefox so I can read the bug report
16 > > > mentioned by Andras.
17 > >
18 > > well I'm getting into a .la hell...
19 > > you need to rebuild packages which are themselves not invalid and
20 > > therefore can't be found by revdep-rebuild...
21 > >
22 > > searching with "grep png12 `find /usr/lib64/ -name '*.la'`" lists all .la
23 > > files with a bad png version, rebuilding those will fix the system. after
24 > > that all packages found by revdep-rebuild can be emerged.
25 > >
26 > > Rudmer
27 >
28 > run la fixer
29
30 ah, yes I knew there was something easier 8-)
31 well running `lafilefixer --justfixit` did not find anything so I got them all
32
33 thanks!
34
35 Rudmer

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libpng12 is missing Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>