Re: [gentoo-user] binutils broken revdep-rebuild

[Willie Wong <wwong@Math.Princeton.EDU>]

On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 01:59:14AM -0800, Steven wrote:
> I tried all, and nothing seemed to solve the problem.
> I'm at a loss as to what this could be.
> When it says "requires -liberty" is liberty part of a package? I am not
> sure what it means by -liberty and were to acquire it.

The library's name is iberty. The -l part is saying that it is a
library. 

http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libiberty/

I don't have access to my gentoo computer at the moment, so I can't
tell you where that comes from. But it is probably from either glibc,
gcc, or libstdc++. I expect the previous poster who told you to
remerge glibc knew the answer :)

But if I am reading revdep-rebuild output correctly, it means that
your binutils is compiled to be linked against that library. But the
library cannot be found by revdep-rebuild. Hence the error.

W 
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Willie W. Wong                                     wwong@math.princeton.edu
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