Bug 197536

Summary:	expat does not create libexpat.so.0 symlink
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Nathan <nathan>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Nathan 2007-10-30 16:32:17 UTC

While emerging net-tools it complained that it could not find libexpat.so.0.  I double checked to ensure that I had installed expat and noticed that it did not create a libexpat.so.0 symlink.
Once this symlink was created net-tools compiled fine.  So the bug is either a symlink not being created or net-tools not calling on the right shared lib.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install new system
2. run emerge --update world
3. watch it complain on net-tools build

Actual Results:  
This was a new box I was setting up and it didn't complain on the other machine I have running.  However I haven't swapped the hard drives to determine if it's having issues with net-tools


making a symlink from /usr/lib/libexpat.<version> to libexpat.so.0 fixed the problem and net-tools compiled fine.

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-10-30 20:56:16 UTC

Run revdep-rebuild.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 128069 ***