On Sunday 09 May 2010, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Sonntag 09 Mai 2010, Rudmer van Dijk wrote:
> > On Sunday 09 May 2010, walt wrote:
> > > This looks to me like a major portage screwup. I see that on my ~amd64
> > > machine I have both versions of libpng, but the 1.2.43-r1 doesn't
> > > install a pkg-config file because 1.4.2 installs one with the same
> > > name, and just as bad, version 1.2.43-r1 removed the libpng12 header
> > > files.
> > >
> > > For now, I'd suggest just going back to to 1.2.43 if you can -- maybe
> > > mask
> > >
> > > >1.2.43 in package.mask?
> > >
> > > Meanwhile I'm trying to fix firefox so I can read the bug report
> > > mentioned by Andras.
> >
> > well I'm getting into a .la hell...
> > you need to rebuild packages which are themselves not invalid and
> > therefore can't be found by revdep-rebuild...
> >
> > searching with "grep png12 `find /usr/lib64/ -name '*.la'`" lists all .la
> > files with a bad png version, rebuilding those will fix the system. after
> > that all packages found by revdep-rebuild can be emerged.
> >
> > Rudmer
>
> run la fixer
ah, yes I knew there was something easier 8-)
well running `lafilefixer --justfixit` did not find anything so I got them all
thanks!
Rudmer
