I faced the same problem, thank you.
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Gregory Shearman <[email protected]> wrote:
> In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
>> I have xchat installed. An update is failing to install with error:
>>
>> libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/libpng12.la' or unhandled
>> argument `/usr/lib/libpng12.la'
>>
>> libpng is installed:
>>
>> /usr/lib$eix libpng
>> [I] media-libs/libpng
>> Available versions:
>> (1.2) 1.2.44
>> (0) 1.4.3
>> Installed versions: 1.2.44(1.2)(06:16:49 PM 07/01/2010) 1.4.3(06:15:21
>> PM 07/01/2010)
>>
>> Checking the lib directory, I find:
>>
>> /usr/lib/$ls libpng*
>> libpng12.so.0 libpng14.a libpng14.la libpng14.so libpng14.so.14
>> libpng14.so.14.3.0 libpng.a libpng.la libpng.so
>>
>> Any suggestions on how I go about fixing this?
>
> Have you run:
>
> # lafilefixer --justfixit
>
> It looks like the libpng update has removed /usr/lib/libpng12.la and
> /usr/lib/libpng.la is probably referencing this file. lafilefixer should
> fix this.
>
> You're running with both libpng 1.2 and libpng 1.4 installed. May I
> suggest you read:
>
> http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2010/06/29/stable-users-libpng-update
>
> Do you keep a log of emerge messages so that you can fix these issues
> as they arise?
>
> The file /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example gives examples of
> how to store all messages generated during an emerge update. These
> messages can save you a lot of grief later on.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Gregory.
>
>
