Bug 218702

Summary:	expat ebuild fails to make a symlink
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	H. Beijeman <hbeijeman>
Component:	[OLD] Library	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	trivial
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description H. Beijeman 2008-04-21 09:11:47 UTC

dev-libs/expat 2.0.1 failed to make a symlink to /usr/lib/libexpat.so.0, this is needed by media-libs/fontconfig 2.5.0-r1. The result was that the next ebuild that depended on fontconfig failed the linking stage with missing references. This brought my overnight emerge fresh-system to a screeching halt at emerge 6 of 214.

Comment 1 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-04-21 15:01:05 UTC

No the symlink is NOT the solution. Please remove the symlink and run revdep-rebuild.

Comment 2 H. Beijeman 2008-04-21 16:20:21 UTC

So I was advised by emerge as well. I tried that route, but I got yet other emerge failures.

Really, you claim it is not a bug. I did a "fresh" gentoo install, did emergy --sync, and then emerge kdebase-startkde. And this fails. Yet it is not a bug, how strange. And it is not about removing symlinks, its about _missing_ symlinks. ldd fontconfig.so showed the missing dependency, I created a symlink to libexpat.so.0, and voila, it worked without revdep or rebuilding. 

At the risk of being very thick and annoying, I reopen this one more time, and hope someone can explain to me what I did wrong, why I should run revdep to fix a missing symlink, and why this isn't a bug. 

Kind regards,
H. B.

Comment 3 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-04-21 16:59:02 UTC


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