[gentoo-user] Re: warning: vmware workstation users should not use new 10.0 profile

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Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Keith Dart<keith@dartworks.biz> wrote:
>> === On Mon, 08/24, Paul Hartman wrote: ===
>>> After switching to the 10.0
>>> profile, Xcb and other X-related things were emerged/upgraded, though,
>>> and I ran xcb-rebuilder.sh and revdep-rebuild both of which found no
>>> problems.
>> ===
>>
>> interesting. On my system some library named libxcb-xlib is used:
>>
>>
>> 315 $ ldd /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/vmware/bin/vmware | grep xcb
>>        libxcb-xlib.so.0 => /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0
>>        (0x00007ff7f67be000)
>>
>> But the new X libraries in 10.0 profile remove that file so it fails to
>> dynamically link that library.
>>
>> Maybe I need to run the overlay...
> 
> I've always been using vmware overlay, when new kernels and other
> things that break vmware, it usually has a fixed version within a few
> days. Right now I'm using vmware-modules 1.0.0.25 and
> vmware-workstation 6.5.3.185404.
> 
> $ ldd /opt/vmware/workstation/lib/vmware/bin/vmware | grep xcb
>         libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 (0x00007f7de0aac000)
> 
> Seems vmware has updated it in the newer version.
> 
> 

Just because ldd reports a library doesn't mean that there is a hard
dependency on that library.  If ../bin/vmware links against libX11.so.6,
but not libxcb*, and libX11.so.6 is linked against libxcb-xlib.so.0,
then ldd will report libxcb-xlib.so.0, because it is an indirect
dependency.  To find direct dependencies, you can use
`scanelf -qF '#F%n' /path/to/file`, which will output a comma-separated
list of libraries (for instance, "libxcb.so.1,libdl.so.2,libc.so.6").

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