Am Samstag, 16. September 2017, 22:31:03 CEST schrieb allan gottlieb: > I am one of the users experiencing the > infinite rebuild of binutils > bug. Today it took a turn I find worrisome > > To summarize for months now after every emerge I get > > !!! existing preserved libs: > >>> package: sys-libs/binutils-libs-2.28.1 > > * - /usr/lib64/libbfd-2.25.1.so > * used by > /usr/lib64/binutils/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/2.25.1/libopcodes-2.25.1.so > (sys-devel/binutils-2.25.1-r1) > Use emerge @preserved-rebuild to rebuild packages using these libraries [snip]
No need to do anything complicated. Just run emerge --depclean --ask and have it remove outdated binutils versions (it will keep the current one, and also then select it for usage automatically). Then all these problems are gone... -- Andreas K. Hüttel dilfri...@gentoo.org Gentoo Linux developer (council, perl, libreoffice)