[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild and gcj

John Blinka · External Since: Apr 17, 2005 Posts: 29

I maintain an up-to-date system that requires gcj. For some time, running
revdep-rebuild -p generates this output:

~--> revdep-rebuild -p
Configuring search environment for revdep-rebuild

Checking reverse dependencies...

Packages containing binaries and libraries broken by a package update
will be emerged.

Collecting system binaries and libraries... done.
(/root/.revdep-rebuild.1_files)

Collecting complete LD_LIBRARY_PATH... done.
(/root/.revdep-rebuild.2_ldpath)

Checking dynamic linking consistency...
broken /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/libgcjawt.la (requires
/usr/lib/lib-gnu-java-awt-peer-gtk.la)
broken /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/libgij.la (requires
/usr/lib/libgcj.la)
done.
(/root/.revdep-rebuild.3_rebuild)

Assigning files to ebuilds... done.
(/root/.revdep-rebuild.4_ebuilds)

Evaluating package order... done.
(/root/.revdep-rebuild.5_order)

All prepared. Starting rebuild...
emerge --oneshot -p =sys-devel/gcc-4.1.1-r3

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R ] sys-devel/gcc-4.1.1-r3
Now you can remove -p (or --pretend) from arguments and re-run
revdep-rebuild.

But re-emerging gcc doesn't solve the dependency problem. In fact, both
libgcjawt.la and
libgij.la appear to be installed by "emerge gcc". gcj.la and
lib-gnu-java-awt-peer-gtk.la
both appear on my system, and both appear to be installed by "emerge
gcc". However,
both are located in /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1, not in /usr/lib.

Is this a bug, or is there something I can do to fix my system? (Other
than put in
soft links to the needed libraries.)

John Blinka
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John Blinka · External Since: Apr 17, 2005 Posts: 29

Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
>
> It's an ancient bug that still isn't fixed. You can either edit the .la files
> or create symlinks.
>
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125728
>
>
So, how does one edit a .la file?

John Blinka
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Markus Schönhaber · External Since: Nov 07, 2006 Posts: 12

John Blinka wrote:

> So, how does one edit a .la file?

By using the texteditor of one's choice.

Regards
mks
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Alan McKinnon · External Since: Jun 06, 2006 Posts: 359

On Wednesday 24 January 2007 15:15, John Blinka wrote:
> Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> > It's an ancient bug that still isn't fixed. You can either edit the
> > .la files or create symlinks.
> >
> > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125728
>
> So, how does one edit a .la file?

[In the spirit of the immortal words uttered by the young junior Vogon]:

Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrmmmmmmmmmmmm,....... with vi?

alan

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John Blinka · External Since: Apr 17, 2005 Posts: 29

Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
>
> [In the spirit of the immortal words uttered by the young junior Vogon]:
>
>
> Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrmmmmmmmmmmmm,....... with vi?
>
> alan
>
>

Sheeesh.... I've never looked at the innards of a .la file - assumed
that, since they were located in .../lib directories, they contained
mysterious binary information which couldn't be manipulated
with an ordinary text editor. Now that I've looked, I'm
embarrassed! Well, thanks for teaching me something.

John
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Alan McKinnon · External Since: Jun 06, 2006 Posts: 359

On Wednesday 24 January 2007 16:01, John Blinka wrote:
> Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > [In the spirit of the immortal words uttered by the young junior
> > Vogon]:
> >
> >
> > Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrmmmmmmmmmmmm,....... with vi?
> >
> > alan
>
> Sheeesh.... I've never looked at the innards of a .la file -
> assumed that, since they were located in .../lib directories, they
> contained mysterious binary information which couldn't be manipulated
> with an ordinary text editor. Now that I've looked, I'm
> embarrassed! Well, thanks for teaching me something.

Guess what? I did the same thing two months ago Smile

After years of
working with the stuff I'd never ever had reason to look inside a .la
and it was only when I hovered over one in Konqueror I saw it was plain
text

Go figure!

alan
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Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman · External Since: May 14, 2006 Posts: 98

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Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Guess what? I did the same thing two months ago Smile

After years of
> working with the stuff I'd never ever had reason to look inside a .la
> and it was only when I hovered over one in Konqueror I saw it was plain
> text

One thing I *LOVE* doing: run file in each directory, cut the output, sort, uniq it, and see what
kind of files I have there. I've discovered that file recognizes many weird formats Razz

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