Re: [gentoo-user] scary (?) situation with binutils

2017-09-20 Thread allan gottlieb
On Mon, Sep 18 2017, allan gottlieb wrote: > On Mon, Sep 18 2017, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > >> No need to do anything complicated. Just run >> >> emerge --depclean --ask >> >> and have it remove outdated binutils versions (it will keep the current one, >> and also then select it for usage

Re: [gentoo-user] scary (?) situation with binutils

2017-09-18 Thread allan gottlieb
On Mon, Sep 18 2017, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > No need to do anything complicated. Just run > > emerge --depclean --ask > > and have it remove outdated binutils versions (it will keep the current one, > and also then select it for usage automatically). > > Then all these problems are gone...

Re: [gentoo-user] scary (?) situation with binutils

2017-09-18 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Samstag, 16. September 2017, 22:31:03 CEST schrieb allan gottlieb: > I am one of the users experiencing the >infinite rebuild of binutils > bug. Today it took a turn I find worrisome > > To summarize for months now after every emerge I get > > !!! existing preserved libs: > >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] scary (?) situation with binutils

2017-09-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 16/09/2017 22:31, allan gottlieb wrote: > I am one of the users experiencing the >infinite rebuild of binutils > bug. Today it took a turn I find worrisome Replying here so it's at the top. Several things are happening, but I suppose the primary one is (and I sorts need to be direct

[gentoo-user] scary (?) situation with binutils

2017-09-16 Thread allan gottlieb
I am one of the users experiencing the infinite rebuild of binutils bug. Today it took a turn I find worrisome To summarize for months now after every emerge I get !!! existing preserved libs: >>> package: sys-libs/binutils-libs-2.28.1 * - /usr/lib64/libbfd-2.25.1.so *