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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Update to dev-libs/icu-51.1 results in borked Dolphin
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 21:30:43
Message-Id: 517D94B7.6090605@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Update to dev-libs/icu-51.1 results in borked Dolphin by Alan McKinnon
1 On 28/04/2013 23:25, Alan McKinnon wrote:
2 > On 28/04/2013 22:23, Mick wrote:
3 >> On Sunday 28 Apr 2013 17:44:25 Alan McKinnon wrote:
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6 >> Then tried to run update world again to update icu to the latest stable
7 >> version 51.1. It fails straight away:
8 >>
9 >> What does this error about autotools mean?
10 >
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12 >
13 > flameeyes, who knows more about this stuff than both of us together, has
14 > this to say in the thread about tar:
15 >
16 >
17 > "yeah, thanks to some automake update someone did not think about testing
18 > first before unmasking, a whole bunch of packages are suddenly failing
19 > with that error. Nothing to see, but versionitis once again hitting a
20 > couple of innocents. Just go to bugzilla and see the bugs for the last
21 > 24h. It is a massacre."
22 >
23 >
24 > At some point in your near future and re-sync and remerge will fix all
25 > your problems. Meanwhile, sit tight and I recommend you do not updates
26 > until emerge worls tells you there's something for auto*
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29 Ignore this, it's a change to autotools.eclass so you won't see it in
30 emerge's list of updates to perform
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32 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=467772
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36 --
37 Alan McKinnon
38 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com

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Re: [gentoo-user] Update to dev-libs/icu-51.1 results in borked Dolphin Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>