It looks like some packages link against libgpm without depending on gpm. It breaks badly at least the following scenario: 1. user removes all packages depending on gpm 2. user does emerge --depclean and removes gpm 3. some packages stop working 4. no-very-happy user does revdep-rebuild and it fails with: ld: libgpm not found on some random package. (This is because some *-config or *.la files tell auto* tools to link against -lgpm. Credit for reminding me that this could be the cause goest to genone@IRC.) 5. even-more-unhappy-user is confused... I detected misbehaving packages with: for a in `grep -rl -- '-lgpm' /usr/bin /usr/lib /usr/kde/3.5/lib`; do echo -n "$a "; epm -qf $a; done and here is the list (possibly not all these packages misbehave): - libggi - libsdl - sdl-mixer Remerging these allowed revdep-rebuild to successfully do it's job. Could anyone fix this problem? Maybe something could be done to autodetect such problems in the future? Portage 2.1_rc1-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.17-rc4-git3-ck1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17-rc4-git3-ck1 i686 AMD Sempron(tm) Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre19 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: 0.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fforce-addr -fomit-frame-pointer -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -funit-at-a-time -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fforce-addr -fomit-frame-pointer -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -funit-at-a-time -pipe -fvisibility-inlines-hidden" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer nostrip parallel-fetch prelink sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="pl" LC_ALL="pl_PL.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--sort-common" LINGUAS="pl" MAKEOPTS="-j1" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse kernel_linux linguas_pl userland_GNU video_cards_nvidia video_cards_fbdev" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
that's how libtool works one sublibrary correctly links against libgpm and everything that links against that library suddenly links against libgpm
*** Bug 139901 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 352832 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 403587 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
