I didn't have any big problem neither. After uprading to libxcb-1.4 a lot of packages failed to compile. I searched for warning messages with elogv, followed the upgrade guide and now all is fine.
regards, Boris On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:31, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@arcor.de> wrote: > On 09/15/2009 10:35 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> as I have just bitten by it, have a look at >> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285004 >> >> before upgrading to x11-libs/libxcb-1.4 (1.4.-r1) >> >> since this breaks any X11-application (including your >> browser to look at the URL above) >> >> Such an update should be DOUBLY MASKED !!! >> >> And the messages coming with libxcb just don't help. >> revdep-rebuild doesn't help either. >> >> And one cannot remerge the broken packages either, >> since there configure bails out. >> >> Oh dear, Gentoo ! > > It temporarily broke my system too, but nothing dramatic: > > emerge -1 -j4 \ > $(for i in x11-proto/ x11-libs/libxcb x11-libs/libX11 x11-libs/libXext \ > x11-libs/libX x11-libs/xcb-util x11-libs/cairo \ > x11-libs/pango x11-libs/gtk+ gnome-base/libgnomeui \ > x11-libs/qt-gui; do \ > qlist -IC $i; \ > done) -v > > resulted in a build failure (a package complained about missing symbols in > libxcb-xlib.so during the link step). According to the upgrade guide, that > was not supposed to happen. The fix was easy though; I just ran > revdep-rebuild at this point (not many packages needed a rebuild, I guess > having "--as-needed" in my LDFLAGS saved the day) and then I repeated the > command, finally deleted /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so* and everything was fine. > > One other slight breakage was revdep-rebuild wanting to rebuilt the same > package over and over again. If revdep-rebuild wants to repeatedly rebuild > a package, you have to unmerge that package first and then re-run > revdep-rebuild; only then will you see the final packages that need to be > rebuild (in my case, kde-base/systemsettings). > > Of course, rebooting the machine before finishing all of this is not a good > idea. > > > -- 42
