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From: John Blinka <jblinka@××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild keeps building gcc
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:37:25
Message-Id: 45D4A724.7050106@neo.rr.com
1 Peter Lewis wrote:
2 > Hi all,
3 >
4 > I've just run revdep-rebuild, after "updating world", and it rebuilt
5 > gcc-4.1.1-r3, due to the following libraries:
6 >
7 > /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/libgcjawt.la
8 > /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/libgij.la
9 >
10 > Once it finished, I ran revdep-rebuild once again, just to check that all was
11 > okay, but it wanted to rebuild gcc again, due to the same libraries. In fact,
12 > I let it do it again, and it's not fixed it.
13 >
14 > Does this point to some kind of inconsistency on my system?
15 >
16 > Thanks,
17 >
18 > Pete.
19 >
20 Following a suggestion on this list, here's what I did to correct this
21 problem:
22
23 Use your favorite text editor to correct the "dependency_libs" line
24 in each of these files. Each line starts with something like
25 dependency_libs=' /usr/lib/gcc/<some library> ...
26 but should start with
27 dependency_libs=' /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/<some library>
28
29 John
30 --
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Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild keeps building gcc Peter Lewis <prlewis@×××××××××××.org>