On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 16 May 2010 22:45:55 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > 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? > > You're not missing anything. It's a cautionary step only. If you are > about > to do something with the machine and remerging the whole universe would be > inconvenient at this moment in time, or you may want to reconsider/change > some > of your settings, then --pretend will give you this chance. I've made the > habit of using it almost without thinking, but you can of course not use > it, > or substitute it with -a. > -- > Regards, > Mick > Well, it just told me it will rebuild clisp and m4, neither of which strike me as essential to Xorg, but I'll give it a try. Thanks, ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
