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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: Mike Kazantsev <mk.fraggod@×××××.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING *** - upgrade to libxcb-1.4 (-r1) breaks your system
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:23:09
Message-Id: 200909151321.27841.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING *** - upgrade to libxcb-1.4 (-r1) breaks your system by Mike Kazantsev
1 On Tuesday 15 September 2009 12:22:59 Mike Kazantsev wrote:
2 > On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:58:58 +0200
3 >
4 > Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
5 > > On Tuesday 15 September 2009 09:49:39 Helmut Jarausch wrote:
6 > > > On 15 Sep, Neil Bothwick wrote:
7 > > > > To completely get rid of libxcb-xlib.so references, please read :
8 > > > > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/libxcb-1.4-upgrade-guide.
9 > > > >xml
10 > > >
11 > > > Since my browser got broken, too, this took some time.
12 > > > And following that advice takes even much more time, since
13 > > > I have to rebuild half of my system.
14 > > >
15 > > > Luckily it has 4 cores,
16 > > > Helmut.
17 > >
18 > > The gods must be favouring me for a change. I'm completely unaffected
19 > > by this upgrade :-)
20 > >
21 > > $ sudo /var/portage/x11-libs/libxcb/files/xcb-rebuilder.sh
22 > > Password:
23 > > * Fixing broken libtool archives (.la)
24 > > * Scanning for libraries requiring libxcb-xlib.so...
25 > > * No broken libraries detected
26 > >
27 > > I wonder what I did different?
28 >
29 > Prehaps nothing.
30 > Rebuild warning is triggered by a check for libxcb-xlib.so.0.0.0, which
31 > didn't seem to exist on my system either.
32 > Guess "xcb" use-flag for libX11 is to blame: if it's not set, then
33 > older libX11 brought along it's own libxcb.
34
35 Yes, that's what it is. I too have USE="-xcb" for libX11
36
37
38 --
39 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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Re: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING *** - upgrade to libxcb-1.4 (-r1) breaks your system Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>