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From: Mike Kazantsev <mk.fraggod@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING *** - upgrade to libxcb-1.4 (-r1) breaks your system
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:23:15
Message-Id: 20090915162259.59a17bd7@malediction
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING *** - upgrade to libxcb-1.4 (-r1) breaks your system by Alan McKinnon
1 On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:58:58 +0200
2 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
3
4 > On Tuesday 15 September 2009 09:49:39 Helmut Jarausch wrote:
5 > > On 15 Sep, Neil Bothwick wrote:
6 >
7 > > > To completely get rid of libxcb-xlib.so references, please read :
8 > > > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/libxcb-1.4-upgrade-guide.xml
9 > >
10 > > Since my browser got broken, too, this took some time.
11 > > And following that advice takes even much more time, since
12 > > I have to rebuild half of my system.
13 > >
14 > > Luckily it has 4 cores,
15 > > Helmut.
16 > >
17 >
18 > The gods must be favouring me for a change. I'm completely unaffected
19 > by this upgrade :-)
20 >
21 > $ sudo /var/portage/x11-libs/libxcb/files/xcb-rebuilder.sh
22 > Password:
23 > * Fixing broken libtool archives (.la)
24 > * Scanning for libraries requiring libxcb-xlib.so...
25 > * No broken libraries detected
26 >
27 > I wonder what I did different?
28
29 Prehaps nothing.
30 Rebuild warning is triggered by a check for libxcb-xlib.so.0.0.0, which
31 didn't seem to exist on my system either.
32 Guess "xcb" use-flag for libX11 is to blame: if it's not set, then
33 older libX11 brought along it's own libxcb.
34
35 --
36 Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net

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