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From: Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@××××××××××××××××.de>
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 07:49:36
Message-Id: tkrat.c2ca19cc8708b726@igpm.rwth-aachen.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING *** - upgrade to libxcb-1.4 (-r1) breaks your system by Neil Bothwick
1 On 15 Sep, Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:38:41 +0200 (CEST), Helmut Jarausch wrote:
3 >
4 >> The above URL doesn't help either,
5 >> so any help to 'survive' is appreciated.
6 >
7 > Did you read the elog message when you emerged the new version?
8
9 Yes, I did ... but
10 >
11 > libxcb-xlib.so is no longer shipped by ${PN} but was kept on your system
12 >
13 > While your system will still work, emerging new packages or updates
14 > will likely fail. You can fix broken libtool .la files by running :
15 >
16 > ${FILESDIR}/xcb-rebuilder.sh
17
18 This doesn't help !
19 >
20 > To completely get rid of libxcb-xlib.so references, please read :
21 > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/libxcb-1.4-upgrade-guide.xml
22 >
23
24 Since my browser got broken, too, this took some time.
25 And following that advice takes even much more time, since
26 I have to rebuild half of my system.
27
28 Luckily it has 4 cores,
29 Helmut.
30
31
32 --
33 Helmut Jarausch
34
35 Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
36 RWTH - Aachen University
37 D 52056 Aachen, Germany

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Re: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING *** - upgrade to libxcb-1.4 (-r1) breaks your system Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>