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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libpng12 is missing
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 22:28:42
Message-Id: 201005110027.12556.volkerarmin@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libpng12 is missing by Rudmer van Dijk
1 On Sonntag 09 Mai 2010, Rudmer van Dijk wrote:
2 > On Sunday 09 May 2010, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
3 > > On Sonntag 09 Mai 2010, Rudmer van Dijk wrote:
4 > > > On Sunday 09 May 2010, walt wrote:
5 > > > > This looks to me like a major portage screwup. I see that on my
6 > > > > ~amd64 machine I have both versions of libpng, but the 1.2.43-r1
7 > > > > doesn't install a pkg-config file because 1.4.2 installs one with
8 > > > > the same name, and just as bad, version 1.2.43-r1 removed the
9 > > > > libpng12 header files.
10 > > > >
11 > > > > For now, I'd suggest just going back to to 1.2.43 if you can -- maybe
12 > > > > mask
13 > > > >
14 > > > > >1.2.43 in package.mask?
15 > > > >
16 > > > > Meanwhile I'm trying to fix firefox so I can read the bug report
17 > > > > mentioned by Andras.
18 > > >
19 > > > well I'm getting into a .la hell...
20 > > > you need to rebuild packages which are themselves not invalid and
21 > > > therefore can't be found by revdep-rebuild...
22 > > >
23 > > > searching with "grep png12 `find /usr/lib64/ -name '*.la'`" lists all
24 > > > .la files with a bad png version, rebuilding those will fix the
25 > > > system. after that all packages found by revdep-rebuild can be
26 > > > emerged.
27 > > >
28 > > > Rudmer
29 > >
30 > > run la fixer
31 >
32 > ah, yes I knew there was something easier 8-)
33 > well running `lafilefixer --justfixit` did not find anything so I got them
34 > all
35 >
36 > thanks!
37 >
38 > Rudmer
39
40 sadly, it does not get them all.
41 The only save way:
42 grep -R for png12 and remerge all packages whose files pop up.
43
44 For example revdep-rebuilt failed to rebuild pygtk - because of glade. But it
45 never tried to rebuild glade...

Replies

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libpng12 is missing Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libpng12 is missing Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>