When running ldconfig command (manually or by compiling a package), this warning appears : ldconfig: /lib/libreadline.so.5 is not a symbolic link It seems to be fixed in next glibc release (see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=495830). Reproducible: Always
This has nothing to do with glibc. ldconfig is complaining about a file left on your system. base-system: is this some random leftover file or something?
(In reply to comment #1) > This has nothing to do with glibc. ldconfig is complaining about a file left > on your system. > > base-system: is this some random leftover file or something? > Ok done Mark :-), I didn't see the final dev's advice after compiling readline : * Old versions of installed libraries were detected on your system. * In order to avoid breaking packages that depend on these old libs, * the libraries are not being removed. You need to run revdep-rebuild * in order to remove these old dependencies. If you do not have this * helper program, simply emerge the 'gentoolkit' package. * * # revdep-rebuild --library libreadline.so.5 * * Once you've finished running revdep-rebuild, it should be safe to * delete the old libraries. Here is a copy & paste for the lazy: * # rm '/lib64/libhistory.so.4' * # rm '/lib64/libhistory.so.5' * # rm '/lib64/libreadline.so.4' * # rm '/lib64/libreadline.so.5' I have removed the old *so.5 libraries and the annoying compilation warning disappears. Thanks.
i'm not aware of any such bug that would have caused this in the readline ebuild, but that doesnt mean there was a transient one a long time ago if you follow the ebuild's advice, then everything would resolve itself anyways, so ...
