Re: [gentoo-user] error emerging gnome-vfs on athlon-xp machine

2005-12-05 Thread Alan E. Davis
This was an awesome explanation.  Useful. However, now I have another issue with kdelibs, also involving an *.la file: libartskde.la, that I cannot find on my machine.  I'll start another topic, I guess. Thank you.  AlanOn 12/4/05, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: On 12/3/05, Alan E. Da

Re: [gentoo-user] error emerging gnome-vfs on athlon-xp machine

2005-12-03 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/3/05, Alan E. Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to understand how this works. Is there any documentation of all > this? The full documentation is "info libtool". Although it is targeted for application developers, it might be useful to browse. But I'll try to give a concise expl

Re: [gentoo-user] error emerging gnome-vfs on athlon-xp machine

2005-12-03 Thread Alan E. Davis
I'd like to understand how this works.  Is there any documentation of all this?  Meanwhile, as I understand it, because I installed from a live cd, the libstdc++ libs were i386-pc-linux-gnu architecture.  I used packages from the 2005.1 packages CD, so perhaps that is where they came from. I've be

Re: [gentoo-user] error emerging gnome-vfs on athlon-xp machine

2005-12-03 Thread Alan E. Davis
Richard: After running the command you kindly provided, the emerge -uDv world is proceeding ok.  Thank you profusely. After running the grep command, the following spewed forth from the console: electrolux # grep libstdc++.la /usr/lib/*la | grep -v "3.4.4/libstdc++.la" /usr/lib/libdb_cxx-4.2.la:

Re: [gentoo-user] error emerging gnome-vfs on athlon-xp machine

2005-12-03 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/3/05, Alan E. Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I don't know what was the "old version" to call fix_libtool_files.sh on. > I know or can find out versions that are currently installed. Is there > somewhere for me to find out which versions I need to run this script on? The gcc directo

Re: [gentoo-user] error emerging gnome-vfs on athlon-xp machine

2005-12-03 Thread Alan E. Davis
In spite of the excellent explanation, I am still at sea with this issue.   I apologize if "top-posting" is an etiquette issue.  Then I suppose I ought to trim this message down.  More down there V.On 12/4/05, Richard Fish < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It is because the .la file for whatever librari

Re: [gentoo-user] error emerging gnome-vfs on athlon-xp machine

2005-12-03 Thread Alan E. Davis
Thank you for the clear explanation. AlanOn 12/4/05, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 12/3/05, Alan E. Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> That's bizaare.  I don't know yet whether it worked.  It is a bit worrisome> to have to remember what version of a program WAS installed, to configure

Re: [gentoo-user] error emerging gnome-vfs on athlon-xp machine

2005-12-03 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/3/05, Alan E. Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's bizaare. I don't know yet whether it worked. It is a bit worrisome > to have to remember what version of a program WAS installed, to configure it > for the here and now. Let's see whether it worked. I was more concerned it > is looki

Re: [gentoo-user] error emerging gnome-vfs on athlon-xp machine

2005-12-03 Thread Dale
I usually do a emerge -p to see what is currently installed. Like this: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # emerge -pv openoffice > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Calculating dependencies ...done! > [ebuild R ] app-office/openoffice-2.0.0 +curl -eds* +gnome +gtk > +java +kde

Re: [gentoo-user] error emerging gnome-vfs on athlon-xp machine

2005-12-03 Thread Alan E. Davis
That's bizaare.  I don't know yet whether it worked.  It is a bit worrisome to have to remember what version of a program WAS installed, to configure it for the here and now.  Let's see whether it worked.  I was more concerned it is looking for i386-pc-linux-gnu.  Was that because the compiler had

Re: [gentoo-user] error emerging gnome-vfs on athlon-xp machine

2005-12-03 Thread Dale
Alan E. Davis wrote: > The following error reflects one that has happened several times > recently with some different ebuilds. On my system is found > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/libstdc++.la > > What steps can I take to complete the emerge of gnome-vfs that has > stopped with