Installing new app-admin/fam-2.7.0-r1 caused that there weren't any more libfam.so.0 or any libfam.so files. What were presented were: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Sep 22 13:38 /usr/lib/libfam -> libfam.0.0.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Sep 22 13:38 /usr/lib/libfam.0 -> libfam.0.0.0 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 28464 Sep 22 13:38 /usr/lib/libfam.0.0.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 53694 Sep 22 13:38 /usr/lib/libfam.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 691 Sep 22 13:38 /usr/lib/libfam.la And of course, KDE couldn't anymore find libfam.so.0 and refused to start. After I created /usr/lib: libfam.so.0 ->libfam.0.0.0, things seem to work again. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: try emerge fam-2.7.0-r1? emerge info: Portage 2.0.50-r11 (default-amd64-2004.2, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.6) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.6 x86_64 5 Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /etc/tomcat5 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/src/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.ccccom.com ftp://gentoo.ccccom.com http://mirror.tucdemonic.org/gentoo/ http://cudlug.cudenver.edu/gentoo/ http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="aalib amd64 apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups encode foomaticdb gdbm gif gphoto2 gtk gtk2 imlib java jpeg kde libg++ libwww mikmod mpeg ncurses nogcj oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png postgres python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl tcltk tcpd tetex truetype xml2 xmms xprint xv zlib"
your libtool version ? see bug #41078 & #41013
libtool --version ltmain.sh (GNU libtool) 1.5.6 (1.1220.2.95 2004/04/11 05:50:42)
afaik that version is still very hard masked for such reasons.
My Bad, thanks for quick response, and sorry about noice. (Just one little grubmle: it is only ~arch masked...)
no, i checked before I said that, it is hard masked in cvs.