On Wednesday 01 Jun 2011 18:38:35 Allan Gottlieb wrote: > On Wed, Jun 01 2011, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 01 2011, Mick wrote: > >> On Wednesday 01 Jun 2011 05:00:08 Allan Gottlieb wrote: > >>> I get the following error several times when trying to emerge > >>> gnome-panel on "oldlap", an ~x86 gentoo. > >>> > >>> CCLD panel-test-applets > >>> > >>> /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.5.2/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ > >>> ld: cannot find -lxcb-aux > >>> /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.5.2/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ > >>> ld: cannot find -lxcb-event > >>> /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.5.2/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ > >>> ld: cannot find -lxcb-atom collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > >>> > >>> oldlap ~ # locate xcb-aux > >>> /usr/lib/pkgconfig/xcb-aux.pc > >>> oldlap ~ # > >> > >> I seem to have more here, on a stable amd64: > >> > >> $ locate xcb-aux > >> /usr/lib64/libxcb-aux.a > >> /usr/lib64/libxcb-aux.la > >> /usr/lib64/libxcb-aux.so > >> /usr/lib64/libxcb-aux.so.0 > >> /usr/lib64/libxcb-aux.so.0.0.0 > >> /usr/lib64/pkgconfig/xcb-aux.pc > > > > Very interesting! I just looked on one of my stable boxes and sure > > enough > > > > so xcb-util-0.3.6 has the files but -0.3.8 (testing) does not. > > > > This has opened a new lead, which I am now pursuing (bug 366227). > > I will report back what I find. > > Indeed that lead fixed all the problems (which are apparently caused by > xcb-util). From the bug > > Gilles Dartiguelongue 2011-05-09 08:23:52 UTC > > Please rebuild xcb-utils after running through as much packages as > possible with revdep-rebuild. From irc discussions, it looks like > xcb links to itself and/or pollutes some la files which ends up in > these weird problems. > > So merging a few manually from the revdep-rebuild list, the merging > xcb-util and repeating, eventually clears up everything.
Interesting fix/workaround. Thanks for the heads up. -- Regards, Mick
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