On Sonntag 09 Mai 2010, Rudmer van Dijk wrote: > On Sunday 09 May 2010, walt wrote: > > This looks to me like a major portage screwup. I see that on my ~amd64 > > machine I have both versions of libpng, but the 1.2.43-r1 doesn't install > > a pkg-config file because 1.4.2 installs one with the same name, and just > > as bad, version 1.2.43-r1 removed the libpng12 header files. > > > > For now, I'd suggest just going back to to 1.2.43 if you can -- maybe > > mask > > > > >1.2.43 in package.mask? > > > > Meanwhile I'm trying to fix firefox so I can read the bug report > > mentioned by Andras. > > well I'm getting into a .la hell... > you need to rebuild packages which are themselves not invalid and therefore > can't be found by revdep-rebuild... > > searching with "grep png12 `find /usr/lib64/ -name '*.la'`" lists all .la > files with a bad png version, rebuilding those will fix the system. after > that all packages found by revdep-rebuild can be emerged. > > Rudmer
run la fixer and op: deinstall libpng1.2 and walt: preserved libs. Look into it.
