[gentoo-user] emerging glib fails to create .la files

[Philip Webb]

I've run into a strange problem updating my netbook.
I merged  glib-2.28.8  successfully as part of a Revdep-Rebuild job,
it being a dep for one of the pkgs in the R-R list.
However after that, merging  gtk+-2.24.4  librsvg-2.34.0  libglade-2.6.4
all failed with a libtool error : "libtool: link: /usr/lib/libgio-2.0.0.la
is not a valid libtool archive" or ditto for  libgobject ;
indeed, those files do not exist in the netbook,
but in my already updated desktop machine,  glib  did create them.
The  glib  merge msgs did include a recommendation to remerge  dbus-glib ,
but that required  dbus  & that too failed with a similar libtool error !
I tried remerging  glib , but it still didn't create the needed  .la  files.

The only item thrown up by Google was a Gentoo forum thread
re a different problem, but recent & suggesting  gcc  needed updating
or users could run into problems with Gnome-type apps.
I'm presently updating to  gcc-4.4.5  (previously 4.4.3),
but that will take  > 3 hr  in the netbook, so any advice is welcome.

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