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From: Chris Reffett <mellitussum@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libpng12 is missing
Date: Sun, 09 May 2010 14:14:42
Message-Id: 4BE6C322.6020705@verizon.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: libpng12 is missing by walt
1 On 05/09/2010 09:32 AM, walt wrote:
2 > On 05/09/2010 05:10 AM, Xi Shen wrote:
3 >> hi,
4 >>
5 >> my system is gentoo amd64, kde 4.3. i just updated my portage, and
6 >> updated the world. then i ran revdep-rebuild, and i got a error when
7 >> building "notification-daemon-0.4.0-r1". the error found in the build
8 >> log is: cannot find -lpng12
9 >>
10 >> i have both libpng-1.2.43-r1 and libpng-1.4.2 installed, but i do not
11 >> have libpng12.a in my /usr/lib64 directory. and 'pkg-config libpng
12 >> --libs' only show '-lpng14'.
13 >
14 > Are you sure you still have version 1.2.43 installed? I'm going thru
15 > the same thing now on x86 and libpng-1.2 was deleted during the update.
16 > I now have only 1.4.2 remaining.
17 >
18 > Revdep-rebuild has been enumerating broken files for twenty minutes and
19 > is still going. I've never seen breakage this bad before. This machine
20 > is going to be useless for the next 24 hours or so until all the packages
21 > are rebuilt.
22 >
23 It looks like preserved-libs didn't catch this one either. I just ran
24 revdep-rebuild overnight, and now notification-daemon and pygtk won't
25 build. But emerge @preserved-rebuild came up with nothing before the
26 revdep-rebuild.
27
28 Chris Reffett