Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with libxcb (and others)

[Allan Gottlieb]

On Tue, Apr 26 2011, Allan Gottlieb wrote:

> Starting last night several builds and programs are crashing due to
> problems in libxcb and others.
>
> My system is ~amd64.
>
> For example evolution fails to start and says

A rebuild of evolution fixed this but the other two errors
still occur


> There is no libxcb-aux now on my system nor is there an libxcb-atom,
> which revdep rebuild mentioned.
>
> openoffice (picked up by revdep-rebuild) fails to build saying
>
> checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
> checking for libwpd-0.8 ... Package libwpd-0.8 was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libwpd-0.8.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'libwpd-0.8' found
> configure: error: Library requirements (libwpd-0.8 ) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.
>
> I looked (using locate) and I have libwpd-0.9.1 now.  Should I downgrade
> to lib0.8.14?
>
> Another problem, perhaps not related, but occurring at the same time is
> that xlsclients-1.1.1 (also picked up by revdep-rebuild) fails to
> build with
>>>> Source configured.
>>>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/x11-apps/xlsclients-1.1.1/work/xlsclients-1.1.1 ...
>>>> Working in BUILD_DIR: "/var/tmp/portage/x11-apps/xlsclients-1.1.1/work/xlsclients-1.1.1_build"
> make --jobs --load-average=5
> make  all-am
> make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/x11-apps/xlsclients-1.1.1/work/xlsclients-1.1.1_build'
>   CC     xlsclients.o
>   GEN    xlsclients.1
> x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -std=gnu99 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I/var/tmp/portage/x11-apps/xlsclients-1.1.1/work/xlsclients-1.1.1    -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wnested-externs -fno-strict-aliasing -Wbad-function-cast -Wformat=2 -Wold-style-definition -Wdeclaration-after-statement   -march=native -O2 -pipe -c /var/tmp/portage/x11-apps/xlsclients-1.1.1/work/xlsclients-1.1.1/xlsclients.c
> /var/tmp/portage/x11-apps/xlsclients-1.1.1/work/xlsclients-1.1.1/xlsclients.c: In function ‘print_client_properties’:
> /var/tmp/portage/x11-apps/xlsclients-1.1.1/work/xlsclients-1.1.1/xlsclients.c:542:8: error: ‘WM_CLIENT_MACHINE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
>
> Something must have gone quite wrong in my last update world.
>
> Advice would be appreciated.
>
> thanks,
> allan