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Apparently, though unproven, at 16:17 on Thursday 19 May 2011, Paul Hartman |
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did opine thusly: |
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> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > On Wednesday 18 May 2011 22:28:38 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> >> Apparently, though unproven, at 23:06 on Wednesday 18 May 2011, Mick did |
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> >> opine |
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> >> |
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> >> thusly: |
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> >> > Had a depclean session which removed: |
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> >> > media-libs/musicbrainz |
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> >> > |
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> >> > selected: 2.1.5 |
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> >> > |
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> >> > protected: none |
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> >> > |
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> >> > omitted: 3.0.2 |
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> >> > |
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> >> > Then I followed up with revdep-rebuild and this comes up: |
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> >> > * Generated new 1_files.rr |
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> >> > * Collecting complete LD_LIBRARY_PATH |
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> >> > * Generated new 2_ldpath.rr |
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> >> > * Checking dynamic linking consistency |
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> >> > |
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> >> > [ 67% ] * broken /usr/lib/libtunepimp.la (requires -lmusicbrainz) |
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> >> > [snip ...] |
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> >> > |
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> >> > * Assigning files to packages |
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> >> > * !!! /usr/lib/libtunepimp.la not owned by any package is broken !!! |
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> >> > * /usr/lib/libtunepimp.la -> (none) |
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> >> > |
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> >> > What is "-lmusicbrainz" and is it telling me to just delete |
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> >> > /usr/lib/libtunepimp.la? |
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> >> |
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> >> Look into any *.la file and you will see stuff like this: |
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> >> |
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> >> /usr/lib/libsqlite3.la:dependency_libs=' -ldl -lpthread' |
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> >> |
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> >> The .la files are hints to the linker telling it how to do stuff, the -l |
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> >> bits reference libraries that will be needed. Far more often than is |
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> >> acceptable, libtool cocks this up in spectacular ways, which is why we |
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> >> had |
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> >> |
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> >> lafilefixer --justfixit |
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> >> |
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> >> for so long, and why it is now built into portage. |
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> >> |
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> >> I have musicbrainz, but I do not have /usr/lib/libtunepimp.la and yours |
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> >> is orphaned anyway - it probably got left behind long ago when depclean |
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> >> didn't know it was related to musicbrainz. |
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> >> |
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> >> Just delete the thing, be done with it, revdep-rebuild will stfu and you |
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> >> will be a much happier chappy |
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> > |
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> > Thanks guys, it's been blitzed! |
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> |
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> I think the long-term plan is to eliminate the *.la files entirely, |
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> once all packages have been updated as such by their maintainers, so |
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> hopefully this kind of problem will vanish in the not-too-distant |
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> future. :) |
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It's closer than you might think, there are very few packages left to be |
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fixed: |
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http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2011/05/03/surviving-without-libtool-archives |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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