On Tue, Apr 26 2011, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > Starting last night several builds and programs are crashing due to > problems in libxcb and others. > > My system is ~amd64. > > For example evolution fails to start and says
A rebuild of evolution fixed this but the other two errors still occur > There is no libxcb-aux now on my system nor is there an libxcb-atom, > which revdep rebuild mentioned. > > openoffice (picked up by revdep-rebuild) fails to build saying > > checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config > checking for libwpd-0.8 ... Package libwpd-0.8 was not found in the > pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing > `libwpd-0.8.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package > 'libwpd-0.8' found > configure: error: Library requirements (libwpd-0.8 ) not met; consider > adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a > nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them. > > I looked (using locate) and I have libwpd-0.9.1 now. Should I downgrade > to lib0.8.14? > > Another problem, perhaps not related, but occurring at the same time is > that xlsclients-1.1.1 (also picked up by revdep-rebuild) fails to > build with >>>> Source configured. >>>> Compiling source in >>>> /var/tmp/portage/x11-apps/xlsclients-1.1.1/work/xlsclients-1.1.1 ... >>>> Working in BUILD_DIR: >>>> "/var/tmp/portage/x11-apps/xlsclients-1.1.1/work/xlsclients-1.1.1_build" > make --jobs --load-average=5 > make all-am > make[1]: Entering directory > `/var/tmp/portage/x11-apps/xlsclients-1.1.1/work/xlsclients-1.1.1_build' > CC xlsclients.o > GEN xlsclients.1 > x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -std=gnu99 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. > -I/var/tmp/portage/x11-apps/xlsclients-1.1.1/work/xlsclients-1.1.1 -Wall > -Wpointer-arith -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes > -Wmissing-declarations -Wnested-externs -fno-strict-aliasing > -Wbad-function-cast -Wformat=2 -Wold-style-definition > -Wdeclaration-after-statement -march=native -O2 -pipe -c > /var/tmp/portage/x11-apps/xlsclients-1.1.1/work/xlsclients-1.1.1/xlsclients.c > /var/tmp/portage/x11-apps/xlsclients-1.1.1/work/xlsclients-1.1.1/xlsclients.c: > In function ‘print_client_properties’: > /var/tmp/portage/x11-apps/xlsclients-1.1.1/work/xlsclients-1.1.1/xlsclients.c:542:8: > error: ‘WM_CLIENT_MACHINE’ undeclared (first use in this function) > > Something must have gone quite wrong in my last update world. > > Advice would be appreciated. > > thanks, > allan
