Philip Webb wrote:
I've run into a strange problem updating my netbook.
I merged glib-2.28.8 successfully as part of a Revdep-Rebuild job,
it being a dep for one of the pkgs in the R-R list.
However after that, merging gtk+-2.24.4 librsvg-2.34.0 libglade-2.6.4
all failed with a libtool error : "libtool: link: /usr/lib/libgio-2.0.0.la
is not a valid libtool archive" or ditto for libgobject ;
indeed, those files do not exist in the netbook,
but in my already updated desktop machine, glib did create them.
The glib merge msgs did include a recommendation to remerge dbus-glib ,
but that required dbus& that too failed with a similar libtool error !
I tried remerging glib , but it still didn't create the needed .la files.
The only item thrown up by Google was a Gentoo forum thread
re a different problem, but recent& suggesting gcc needed updating
or users could run into problems with Gnome-type apps.
I'm presently updating to gcc-4.4.5 (previously 4.4.3),
but that will take> 3 hr in the netbook, so any advice is welcome.
This is based on a quick read of your post. If you are just now
noticing that .la files are missing, you are in for a treat. They have
been removing .la files for quite some time now.
I would suggest running revdep-rebuild and it may take a few times. I'm
not sure if using a 2.2 version of portage would help on this or not.
Dale
:-) :-)
