On 28/03/2015 01:05, walt wrote: > On 03/27/2015 02:56 AM, ddjones wrote: >> I seem to be hitting this bug: >> >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=513386 >> >> webkit-gtk fails: >> >> gtk-2.4.8/work/webkitgtk-2.4.8/.libs/libwebkitgtk-3.0.so: undefined >> reference >> to `_ZNSt6chrono3_V212steady_clock3nowEv@GLIBCXX_3.4.19' > > I don't know if you understand the concepts discussed in that bug report, but > this this is basic idea: > > You see that the undefined symbol includes the string "GLIBCXX". From this > you > can tell that the program uses the well-known c++ standard library, which > happens > to be installed separately by each version of gcc you have on your computer. > > The error you are seeing is caused by using a different version of gcc to > compile > webkit-gtk than you used to compile some other package that webkit-gtk > depends on. > > The tedious but necessary fix is to find every package on your computer that > needs > libstdc++ and then recompile all of them with the same version of gcc. Yup, > boring.
I ran into the same thing with one of my machines a few months back, and I did try the approach you suggest. It got to be so tedious and boring that I decided stuff it, gave up and did emerge -e world Took 12 hours or so. The payoff was that I could just walk away and let the machine get on with it, without having to sit there and fiddle after every package was built -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com