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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: Sun, 09 May 2010 18:56:11
Message-Id: 201005092054.44760.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, walt wrote:
3 > > This looks to me like a major portage screwup. I see that on my ~amd64
4 > > machine I have both versions of libpng, but the 1.2.43-r1 doesn't install
5 > > a pkg-config file because 1.4.2 installs one with the same name, and just
6 > > as bad, version 1.2.43-r1 removed the libpng12 header files.
7 > >
8 > > For now, I'd suggest just going back to to 1.2.43 if you can -- maybe
9 > > mask
10 > >
11 > > >1.2.43 in package.mask?
12 > >
13 > > Meanwhile I'm trying to fix firefox so I can read the bug report
14 > > mentioned by Andras.
15 >
16 > well I'm getting into a .la hell...
17 > you need to rebuild packages which are themselves not invalid and therefore
18 > can't be found by revdep-rebuild...
19 >
20 > searching with "grep png12 `find /usr/lib64/ -name '*.la'`" lists all .la
21 > files with a bad png version, rebuilding those will fix the system. after
22 > that all packages found by revdep-rebuild can be emerged.
23 >
24 > Rudmer
25
26 run la fixer
27
28 and op:
29 deinstall libpng1.2
30
31 and walt:
32 preserved libs. Look into it.

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libpng12 is missing Rudmer van Dijk <rudmer.van.dijk@××××××.nl>
[gentoo-user] Re: libpng12 is missing walt <w41ter@×××××.com>