Bug 2690

Summary:	libiconv is masked and needed by abiword and many others
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Sander Balkenende <sbalk>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Sander Balkenende 2002-05-13 02:52:18 UTC

Hi,
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I recently deinstalled libiconv for some reason, but now I am not able to
reinstall it because it is blocked:

root@herman dev-libs # emerge libiconv/libiconv-1.7.ebuild
Calculating dependencies \

!!! ebuild dev-libs/libiconv-1.7 not found (possibly blocked by package.mask)
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When I try to emerge for instance abiword, I get the following error:

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perl: error while loading shared libraries: libiconv.so.2: cannot open shared
object file: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/perl: error while loading shared libraries: libiconv.so.2: cannot open
shared object file: No such file or directory

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* Ignore above ERROR as it does not cause build *
* to fail.                                      *
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/usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: ./configure: No such file or directory

!!! ERROR: The ebuild did not complete successfully.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 106, Exitcode 127
!!! (no error message)

!!! emerge aborting on  /usr/portage/app-office/abiword/abiword-1.0.1.ebuild .
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To me personally, it is not really an issue, but it seams to me a bug so it
should be reported :)

Thanks,
Sander

Comment 1 Spider (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-05-13 05:55:26 UTC

libiconv was masked for just this reason, it taints and interferes with a lot of
packages
emerge unmerge libiconv
emerge glibc
logout
login
emerge gal perl <-- those two link to libiconv if built when libiconv is installed.