IrYoKu posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Mon, 14 Feb 2005 21:26:10 +0100:
> Simone Piunno escribi�: > >>On Monday 14 February 2005 16:21, IrYoKu wrote: >> >>>In the 2004.3 livecd that I used to install gentoo on my computer, the >>>symlink was "/usr/lib64 -> /usr/lib". Now it is "/usr/lib64 -> /lib64". >>>I think it is fault of the "emerge system" & "emerge world" I did this >>>past weekend. >>>I don't know what changed the symlink, but I think that this maybe be a >>>bug, and can lead to broken gentoo's. >>> >>There's an high chance this mess has been caused by xorg-x11 6.8.2. >> > I have installed xorg-x11 6.8.2 this past weekend, so it must be the > cause. > > I will try to unmerge all the packages I have emerged since xorg-x11 > 6.8.2, then change the symlink to /usr/lib, and reemerge all again. Indeed, it /might/ be xorg-x11-6.8.2. I'm running the 2005.0 profile and ~amd64 here, and everything is fine. However, on 2005.0, the symlink is reversed. Instead of being /usr/lib64 -> lib (that is /usr/lib), it's the reverse. On 2005.0, lib64 is the real dir, lib is the symlink to it (in preparation for full multi-lib later, hopefully by 2005.1, where lib will be the standard 32-bit libraries, and lib64 will be 64-bit libraries). Thus, my /usr/lib64 is a real dir not a symlink, and it remains a real dir not a symlink after installing xorg 6.8.2. This might be why the problem hasn't been caught. Most of the amd64 devs are probably running 2005.0 and have real lib64s, so didn't experience the bug. Most of those testing the 6.8.1.90x betas are probably leading edge and therefore long ago switched to 2005.0 and a real lib64 as well, so the problem wasn't caught earlier. It's probably only appearing in old profile such as amd64/2004.3, where /usr/lib64 is a symlink, not the real dir it is in 2005.0, and nobody on the old profiles tested the new xorg layout and caught the bug, until now. It'd be worth filing a bug against. However, it'd be nice (tho not mandatory) to verify it is indeed xorg causing the problem, so the bug is filed against the right package. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- [email protected] mailing list
