I'm trying to do an upgrade on my Gentoo desktop system. One of the pieces that's in need of upgrading is dbus, from v0.62-r2 to v1.0.2, and in fact the former blocks the latter so I can't upgrade anything else until I do the dbus upgrade. revdep-rebuild indicates that dozens of packages are broken by the dbus upgrade!
The most important of these packages for my work is evolution, which is flakey at best and drives me crazy at times, but I depend on it so I'm careful to not do anything to disable it. So I upgraded dbus, and then tried to upgrade evolution, but the ebuild fails with the following: grep: /usr/lib/libdbus-glib-1.la: No such file or directory /bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib/libdbus-glib-1.la: No such file or directory libtool: link: `/usr/lib/libdbus-glib-1.la' is not a valid libtool archive make[3]: *** [libeconduit.la] Error 1 make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... grep: /usr/lib/libdbus-glib-1.la: No such file or directory /bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib/libdbus-glib-1.la: No such file or directory libtool: link: `/usr/lib/libdbus-glib-1.la' is not a valid libtool archive make[3]: *** [libeutil.la] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/evolution-2.8.2.1/work/evolution-2.8.2.1/e-util' make[2]: *** [all] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/evolution-2.8.2.1/work/evolution-2.8.2.1/e-util' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/evolution-2.8.2.1/work/evolution-2.8.2.1' make: *** [all] Error 2 Indeed, the dbus upgrade nuked /usr/lib/libdbus-glib-1.la. Shouldn't the configure script for evolution detect that this file is absent and compensate for its absence, or fail in configure so the ebuild never gets this far? I downversioned dbus to where it was before and things are working normally again, but I'm stuck until I can figure out how to re-emerge evolution if I upgrade dbus. Can anyone advise me? -- Lindsay Haisley | "Fighting against human | PGP public key FMP Computer Services | creativity is like | available at 512-259-1190 | trying to eradicate | <http://pubkeys.fmp.com> http://www.fmp.com | dandelions" | | (Pamela Jones) | -- [email protected] mailing list
