On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Sunday 16 May 2010 18:18:09 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> > On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogor...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> <major snippage> > > >> > Oh, and one more thing showed up last night. I reemerged udev, and >> noticed >> > that the ebuild printed a message to the effect that if it doesn't work, >> I >> > should try emerging hal first. Leaving aside the non-effective >> language, I >> > tried that and although hal is installed, I can no longer build it. >> This >> > may turn out to be the most important thing. It turns out I can't >> compile >> > the latest wireshark either. Maybe something is hosed deep down. It >> may >> > be time to go down the "emptytree" road again, but it took 2 weeks last >> > time, and was a major PITA. >> >> I don't know if you have been following the "libpng12 is missing" thread, >> but >> for good measure you may want to try lafilefixer --justfixit and revdep- >> rebuild -p -v -i a number of times first. On two machines of mine (x86) >> there >> was no problem. On another (amd64) I had to go through the pain of emerge >> -e >> world. >> >> I just did the lafixer thing and was astonished at how many .la files it > said it was > fixing. Seems like my system should have been dead outright.... > > Now I'm off to a bunch of revdep-rebuilds. > > Hope this works, because I really *do not* want to emerge -e world (again). > > > I've got to ask, though, what good a revdep-rebuild does with the -p (pretend) flag. Am I missing something here? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD