Re: [gentoo-user] emerge xchat fails

[Gregory Shearman <zekeyg@gmail.com>]

In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
> I have xchat installed.  An update is failing to install with error:
>
> libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/libpng12.la' or unhandled 
> argument `/usr/lib/libpng12.la'
>
> libpng is installed:
>
> /usr/lib$eix libpng
> [I] media-libs/libpng
>      Available versions:  
>         (1.2)   1.2.44
>         (0)     1.4.3
>      Installed versions:  1.2.44(1.2)(06:16:49 PM 07/01/2010) 1.4.3(06:15:21 
> PM 07/01/2010)
>
> Checking the lib directory, I find:
>
> /usr/lib/$ls libpng*
> libpng12.so.0  libpng14.a  libpng14.la  libpng14.so  libpng14.so.14  
> libpng14.so.14.3.0  libpng.a  libpng.la  libpng.so
>
> Any suggestions on how I go about fixing this?

Have you run:

# lafilefixer --justfixit

It looks like the libpng update has removed /usr/lib/libpng12.la and
/usr/lib/libpng.la is probably referencing this file. lafilefixer should
fix this.

You're running with both libpng 1.2 and libpng 1.4 installed. May I
suggest you read:

http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2010/06/29/stable-users-libpng-update

Do you keep a log of emerge messages so that you can fix these issues
as they arise?

The file /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example gives examples of
how to store all messages generated during an emerge update. These
messages can save you a lot of grief later on.

-- 
Regards,

Gregory.