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From: Andrew Lowe <agl@×××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Infinite loop in revdep-rebuild with firefox-17.0.2
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:02:37
Message-Id: 510130DB.4010602@wht.com.au
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Infinite loop in revdep-rebuild with firefox-17.0.2 by Alan Mackenzie
1 On 01/24/13 19:25, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
2 > Hi, Gentoo!
3 >
4 > A couple of days ago, I merged firefox-17.0.2 and ran revdep-rebuild -p.
5 > It said, strangely, that some firefox libraries needed rebuilding.
6 >
7 > I've just let revdep-rebuild rebuild firefox. I run revdep-rebuild -p
8 > again, and it's still saying these libraries need rebuilding. This
9 > isn't good.
10 >
11 > Here's some output from revdep-rebuild -p:
12 >
13 > * Checking dynamic linking consistency
14 > [ 100% ]Same problem
15 > * broken /usr/lib64/firefox/libxpcom.so (no version information available)
16 > * broken /usr/lib64/firefox/plugin-container (no version information available)
17 > * broken /usr/lib64/firefox/sdk/bin/xpcshell (no version information available)
18 > * broken /usr/lib64/firefox/sdk/lib/libxpcom.so (no version information available)
19 > * Generated new 3_broken.rr
20 > * Assigning files to packages
21 > * /usr/lib64/firefox/libxpcom.so -> www-client/firefox
22 > * /usr/lib64/firefox/plugin-container -> www-client/firefox
23 > * /usr/lib64/firefox/sdk/bin/xpcshell -> www-client/firefox
24 > * /usr/lib64/firefox/sdk/lib/libxpcom.so -> www-client/firefox
25 >
26 > The problem seems to be the "no version information available".
27 > revdep-rebuild is now less useful than it should be.
28 >
29 > Has anybody else encountered this problem, and what is the best way to
30 > solve it?
31 >
32
33 Same problem here, although with V18.0-r1. I have
34 net-libs/xulrunner-2.0.1-r1 on my machine, referring to
35 Jean-Christophe's proposed fix. I'll kill this off with emerge -C and
36 see what happens.
37
38 Andrew

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