Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libpng12 is missing

[Chris Reffett <mellitussum@verizon.net>]

On 05/09/2010 09:32 AM, walt wrote:
> On 05/09/2010 05:10 AM, Xi Shen wrote:
>> hi,
>>
>> my system is gentoo amd64, kde 4.3. i just updated my portage, and
>> updated the world. then i ran revdep-rebuild, and i got a error when
>> building "notification-daemon-0.4.0-r1". the error found in the build
>> log is: cannot find -lpng12
>>
>> i have both libpng-1.2.43-r1 and libpng-1.4.2 installed, but i do not
>> have libpng12.a in my /usr/lib64 directory. and 'pkg-config libpng
>> --libs' only show '-lpng14'.
>
> Are you sure you still have version 1.2.43 installed?  I'm going thru
> the same thing now on x86 and libpng-1.2 was deleted during the update.
> I now have only 1.4.2 remaining.
>
> Revdep-rebuild has been enumerating broken files for twenty minutes and
> is still going.  I've never seen breakage this bad before.  This machine
> is going to be useless for the next 24 hours or so until all the packages
> are rebuilt.
>
It looks like preserved-libs didn't catch this one either. I just ran
revdep-rebuild overnight, and now notification-daemon and pygtk won't
build. But emerge @preserved-rebuild came up with nothing before the
revdep-rebuild.

Chris Reffett