here is a sample snippet of the tail of a revdep-rebuild followed by another one === * Messages for package sys-devel/gcc-4.1.2:
* If you have issues with packages unable to locate libstdc++.la, * then try running 'fix_libtool_files.sh' on the old gcc versions. * GNU info directory index is up-to-date. Build finished correctly. Removing temporary files... You can re-run revdep-rebuild to verify that all libraries and binaries are fixed. If some inconsistency remains, it can be orphaned file, deep dependency, binary package or specially evaluated library. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo revdep-rebuild -av Password: Configuring search environment for revdep-rebuild Checking reverse dependencies... Packages containing binaries and libraries broken by a package update will be emerged. Collecting system binaries and libraries... done. (/home/markd/.revdep-rebuild.1_files) Collecting complete LD_LIBRARY_PATH... done. (/home/markd/.revdep-rebuild.2_ldpath) Checking dynamic linking consistency... broken /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/libgcjawt.la (requires /usr/lib/../lib64/lib-gnu-java-awt-peer-gtk.la) broken /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/libgij.la (requires /usr/lib/../lib64/libgcj.la) broken /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/libgcjawt.la (requires /usr/lib/../lib64/lib-gnu-java-awt-peer-gtk.la) broken /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/libgij.la (requires /usr/lib/../lib64/libgcj.la) done. (/home/markd/.revdep-rebuild.3_rebuild) Assigning files to ebuilds... done. (/home/markd/.revdep-rebuild.4_ebuilds) Evaluating package order... done. (/home/markd/.revdep-rebuild.5_order) All prepared. Starting rebuild... emerge --oneshot -av =sys-devel/gcc-4.1.2 .......... These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] sys-devel/gcc-4.1.2 USE="d fortran gcj gtk libffi mudflap nls objc objc++ objc-gc (-altivec) -bootstrap -build -doc (-hardened) -ip28 -ip32r10k (-multilib) -multislot (-n32) (-n64) -nocxx -test -vanilla" 0 kB Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] /=== What could i have broken this time? Shouldn't subsequent revdep-rebuilds be doing nothing? This is my fourth consecutive revdep-rebuild... I am using overlays. I just recently removed the ecatmur overlay from my listing, so I didn't think it would be causing problems === [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ layman -l * roslin [Rsync ] (source: rsync://roslin.kicks- ass.n...) * sabayon [Subversion] (source: http://svn.sabayonlinux.or...) * sunrise [Subversion] (source: http://overlays.gentoo.org...) /=== The roslin overlay was used primarily for frostwire, i can't remember what the other two were for. But if it were an overlay issue, wouldn't revdep-rebuild be saying that it uses the overlays right after the build list? What could be going on? -- thing.

