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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@××××××××××××××××.de>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING *** - upgrade to libxcb-1.4 (-r1) breaks your system
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:00:41
Message-Id: 200909150958.58687.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING *** - upgrade to libxcb-1.4 (-r1) breaks your system by Helmut Jarausch
1 On Tuesday 15 September 2009 09:49:39 Helmut Jarausch wrote:
2 > On 15 Sep, Neil Bothwick wrote:
3
4 > > To completely get rid of libxcb-xlib.so references, please read :
5 > > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/libxcb-1.4-upgrade-guide.xml
6 >
7 > Since my browser got broken, too, this took some time.
8 > And following that advice takes even much more time, since
9 > I have to rebuild half of my system.
10 >
11 > Luckily it has 4 cores,
12 > Helmut.
13 >
14
15 The gods must be favouring me for a change. I'm completely unaffected by this
16 upgrade :-)
17
18 $ sudo /var/portage/x11-libs/libxcb/files/xcb-rebuilder.sh
19 Password:
20 * Fixing broken libtool archives (.la)
21 * Scanning for libraries requiring libxcb-xlib.so...
22 * No broken libraries detected
23
24 I wonder what I did different?
25
26 --
27 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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