On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 20:23 +0100, "Tóth Attila" wrote: > I've suspected, that it won't be a torch-light procession. > But reality exceeded my expectations. > Around 60 packages failed out of approx 100! I've followed the > ebuild's > advice, that I leave the old library in place and revdep all packages > linked to it. > Acutally it would be better to remove the old library immediately, > because > a bunch of packages still tried to use -lpng14 for linking. In those > case > removing the old libs seems to help most of the time. But it will take > another day to roll over the packages. > Of course some packages will still fail. But it could spare me a day > of > useless compiles failing at the end while linking if I would have > removed > the old library for the first time.
I found that the "problem" was .la files where the library does NOT link in libpng but the .la file contains png14. Neither revdep-rebuild nor 'emerge @preserver-rebuild' caught these and I had to manually identify and re-emerge the packages whose .la files referenced png14.
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