On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Jarry <mr.ja...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I updated recently libpcre to 8.30-r2 on ~10 system without > problems. Today I updated the last one. As usually, this > message has been printed: > > * Messages for package dev-libs/libpcre-8.30-r2: > * Old versions of installed libraries were detected on your system. > * In order to avoid breaking packages that depend on these old libs, > * the libraries are not being removed. You need to run revdep-rebuild > * in order to remove these old dependencies. If you do not have this > * helper program, simply emerge the 'gentoolkit' package. > * > * # revdep-rebuild --library '/lib64/libpcre.so.0' && > rm '/lib64/libpcre.so.0' > > So I run first: > # revdep-rebuild --library '/lib64/libpcre.so.0' > > To my big surprise, none packages have been found: > * There are no dynamic links to /lib64/libpcre.so.0. All done > > I was a little suspicious because I remember on all other > systems 2 packages had to be recompiled. So I created copy > of the above mentioned library in homedir, and removed it: > # rm '/lib64/libpcre.so.0' > > Then I tried "revdep-rebuild" and got plenty of errors: > > grep: error while loading shared libraries: libpcre.so.0: > cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > > Apparently, grep needs libpcre.so.0. But how is it possible > that "revdep-rebild --library '/lib64/libpcre.so.0'" does not > find any package linked to libpcre.so.0, yet when I remove it, > grep is broken? > > Does anybody remember what was the 2nd package linked to > libpcre.so.0, which had to be recompliled after libpcre > upgrade?
I'll venture 'sed' as a guess. -- :wq
