On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Helmut Jarausch <jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> wrote: > Hi, > > I've just been bitten by this * surprise * > > After upgrading to gcc-4.5.4 (from 4.5.3) > some packages / ebuilds fail since gcc-4.5.4 doesn't include the libffi.so.4 > library. > > I had to rebuild > dev-lang/perl (all versions here 2.7 3.2) > dev-libs/gobject-introspection > dev-libs/gobject-introspection-common > > and I'm not sure that's enough. > Unfortunately, revdep-rebuild doesn't fix the problems. > > The problem didn't occur on a system where I'm using gcc-4.6.x as standard > compiler. > > Helmut. > Hi Helmut,
libffi.so.4 has nothing to do with gcc. Rebuild the libffi package and try to rebuild these packages again. Regards, Markos