From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Quue3-0000AR-9J for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 23:08:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AA52C21C2B8; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 23:07:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gw0-f53.google.com (mail-gw0-f53.google.com [74.125.83.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31D8121C10B for ; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 23:05:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gwj20 with SMTP id 20so3062046gwj.40 for ; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 16:05:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=lSlPPCbXau6DB293MGU3P02gYnAItNFHtM6JrlCGO/c=; b=R/gmjS+kejNU7ygRebXzy+QbmeKWwft++EyENWNfp6D+3u2jHxurBKPhv3L1wGkzlo tcOt12+IUZcJEnoEByu0rNGwO5RsuSatV+nvl7opB/nvq3HSNefo05NAWmVfP1/v+gmY nxjiJ7Gdq6qlzepSDWcrwHIc8+QLvpWvnt0fw= Received: by 10.150.133.11 with SMTP id g11mr824829ybd.370.1313881543598; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 16:05:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-116-190.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.116.190]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id k17sm1241216yba.14.2011.08.20.16.05.41 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 20 Aug 2011 16:05:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E503DC4.6050103@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 18:05:40 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110816 Gentoo/2.0.14-r1 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerging glib fails to create .la files References: <20110820213955.GA3133@ca.inter.net> In-Reply-To: <20110820213955.GA3133@ca.inter.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: e8c1bf33f505a0f19cf239dcd81e7d38 Philip Webb wrote: > I've run into a strange problem updating my netbook. > I merged glib-2.28.8 successfully as part of a Revdep-Rebuild job, > it being a dep for one of the pkgs in the R-R list. > However after that, merging gtk+-2.24.4 librsvg-2.34.0 libglade-2.6.4 > all failed with a libtool error : "libtool: link: /usr/lib/libgio-2.0.0.la > is not a valid libtool archive" or ditto for libgobject ; > indeed, those files do not exist in the netbook, > but in my already updated desktop machine, glib did create them. > The glib merge msgs did include a recommendation to remerge dbus-glib , > but that required dbus& that too failed with a similar libtool error ! > I tried remerging glib , but it still didn't create the needed .la files. > > The only item thrown up by Google was a Gentoo forum thread > re a different problem, but recent& suggesting gcc needed updating > or users could run into problems with Gnome-type apps. > I'm presently updating to gcc-4.4.5 (previously 4.4.3), > but that will take> 3 hr in the netbook, so any advice is welcome. > > This is based on a quick read of your post. If you are just now noticing that .la files are missing, you are in for a treat. They have been removing .la files for quite some time now. I would suggest running revdep-rebuild and it may take a few times. I'm not sure if using a 2.2 version of portage would help on this or not. Dale :-) :-)