Re: [gentoo-user] error emerging gnome-vfs on athlon-xp machine

2005-12-05 Thread Alan E. Davis
This was an awesome explanation. Useful. However, now I have another issue with kdelibs, also involving an *.la file: libartskde.la, that I cannot find on my machine. I'll start another topic, I guess. Thank you. AlanOn 12/4/05, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/3/05, Alan E. Davis

[gentoo-user] error emerging gnome-vfs on athlon-xp machine

2005-12-03 Thread Alan E. Davis
The following error reflects one that has happened several times recently with some different ebuilds. On my system is found /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/libstdc++.la What steps can I take to complete the emerge of gnome-vfs that has stopped with the following error? grep:

Re: [gentoo-user] error emerging gnome-vfs on athlon-xp machine

2005-12-03 Thread Dale
Alan E. Davis wrote: The following error reflects one that has happened several times recently with some different ebuilds. On my system is found /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/libstdc++.la What steps can I take to complete the emerge of gnome-vfs that has stopped with the

Re: [gentoo-user] error emerging gnome-vfs on athlon-xp machine

2005-12-03 Thread Alan E. Davis
That's bizaare. I don't know yet whether it worked. It is a bit worrisome to have to remember what version of a program WAS installed, to configure it for the here and now. Let's see whether it worked. I was more concerned it is looking for i386-pc-linux-gnu. Was that because the compiler had been

Re: [gentoo-user] error emerging gnome-vfs on athlon-xp machine

2005-12-03 Thread Dale
I usually do a emerge -p program name to see what is currently installed. Like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # emerge -pv openoffice These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] app-office/openoffice-2.0.0 +curl -eds* +gnome +gtk

Re: [gentoo-user] error emerging gnome-vfs on athlon-xp machine

2005-12-03 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/3/05, Alan E. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's bizaare. I don't know yet whether it worked. It is a bit worrisome to have to remember what version of a program WAS installed, to configure it for the here and now. Let's see whether it worked. I was more concerned it is looking

Re: [gentoo-user] error emerging gnome-vfs on athlon-xp machine

2005-12-03 Thread Alan E. Davis
Thank you for the clear explanation. AlanOn 12/4/05, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/3/05, Alan E. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's bizaare.I don't know yet whether it worked.It is a bit worrisome to have to remember what version of a program WAS installed, to configure it for

Re: [gentoo-user] error emerging gnome-vfs on athlon-xp machine

2005-12-03 Thread Alan E. Davis
In spite of the excellent explanation, I am still at sea with this issue. I apologize if top-posting is an etiquette issue. Then I suppose I ought to trim this message down. More down there V.On 12/4/05, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is because the .la file for whatever libraries

Re: [gentoo-user] error emerging gnome-vfs on athlon-xp machine

2005-12-03 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/3/05, Alan E. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I don't know what was the old version to call fix_libtool_files.sh on. I know or can find out versions that are currently installed. Is there somewhere for me to find out which versions I need to run this script on? The gcc directory

Re: [gentoo-user] error emerging gnome-vfs on athlon-xp machine

2005-12-03 Thread Alan E. Davis
Richard: After running the command you kindly provided, the emerge -uDv world is proceeding ok. Thank you profusely. After running the grep command, the following spewed forth from the console: electrolux # grep libstdc++.la /usr/lib/*la | grep -v 3.4.4/libstdc++.la

Re: [gentoo-user] error emerging gnome-vfs on athlon-xp machine

2005-12-03 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/3/05, Alan E. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to understand how this works. Is there any documentation of all this? The full documentation is info libtool. Although it is targeted for application developers, it might be useful to browse. But I'll try to give a concise