On Monday, 28 October 2019 17:54:02 GMT Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 05:50:39PM +0100, Hartmut Figge wrote
> 
> > hafi@i5-64 ~ $ equery b /usr/lib64/libffi.so.6
> > 
> >  * Searching for /usr/lib64/libffi.so.6 ...
> > 
> > dev-libs/libffi-3.3_rc0 (/usr/lib64/libffi.so.6 -> libffi.so.6.0.4)
> > dev-libs/libffi-3.3_rc0 (/usr/lib64/libffi.so.6.0.4)
> 
>   I think I'm officially screwed.  Now I can't even open a new browser
> profile due to it not finding /usr/lib64/libffi.so.6.  I tried
> re-emerging libffi and it ends up with...
> 
> ===============================================================
>  * Final size of build directory: 6700 KiB (6.5 MiB)
>  * Final size of installed tree:   764 KiB
> 
> strip: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-strip --strip-unneeded -N
> __gentoo_check_ldflags__ -R .comment -R .GCC.command.line -R
> .note.gnu.gold-version /usr/lib64/libffi.so.7.1.0
> 
> >>> Installing (1 of 1) dev-libs/libffi-3.3_rc0::gentoo
> >>> Auto-cleaning packages...
> 
> ===============================================================
> 
>   Now what?  Further checking.  libffi is a dependancy of
> virtual/libffi, and the virtual/libffi-3.3_rc0.ebuild is...
> 
> ===============================================================
> # Copyright 1999-2019 Gentoo Authors
> # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
> 
> # The purpose of this ebuild is to provide quick fallback if and when we
> need to # switch back to internal copy of libffi from sys-devel/gcc.
> 
> EAPI=7
> 
> inherit multilib-build
> 
> DESCRIPTION="A virtual for the Foreign Function Interface implementation"
> SLOT="0/7" # SONAME=libffi.so.7
> KEYWORDS="alpha amd64 arm ~arm64 hppa ia64 ~m68k ~mips ppc ppc64 ~riscv s390
> ~sh sparc x86 ~ppc-aix ~x64-cygwin ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos
> ~x64-macos ~x 86-macos ~m68k-mint ~sparc-solaris ~sparc64-solaris
> ~x64-solaris ~x86-solaris"
> 
> RDEPEND=">=dev-libs/libffi-3.3_rc0:0/7[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]"
> ===============================================================

If you have no back up you could probably download a LiveCD/DVD image and use 
that.
-- 
Regards,

Mick

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