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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GCC 5.4.0 again
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 08:11:22
Message-Id: 186666443.Kc1zgaP3ln@peak
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: GCC 5.4.0 again by Ian Zimmerman
1 On Wednesday 26 Apr 2017 11:51:54 Ian Zimmerman wrote:
2 > On 2017-04-26 10:53, Peter Humphrey wrote:
3 > > # revdep-rebuild --library 'libstdc++.so.6' -- --exclude="gcc gentoo-
4 > > sources" --jobs --load-average=48
5 > >
6 > > ...only to find that gentoo-sources was indeed emerged, though gcc
7 > > wasn't. What's gone wrong here? I've always found that style of
8 > > specifying exclusions to work before.
9 >
10 > How does gentoo-sources depend on libstdc++ ??
11 >
12 > My guess is that it doesn't, and that it wouldn't have been emerged had
13 > you not mentioned it at all. I think revdep-rebuild does some dumb
14 > string substitution when constructing the emerge command line, such that
15 > gentoo-sources ends up being an atom name rather than exclusion.
16
17 The reason I mentioned gentoo-sources on the command line is that I'd
18 already tried revdep-rebuild without mentioning it, with the same result
19 (gentoo-sources emerge started), and I was trying to prevent it and avoid
20 the waste of resources.
21
22 > Maybe
23 >
24 > --exclude gcc --exclude gentoo-sources
25 >
26 > would work?
27
28 Nope. I tried that too. I just had to wait while all that pointless work was
29 done again.
30
31 --
32 Regards
33 Peter